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CVE-2026-57228: OISF suricata · Out-of-bounds Read

Affects OISF suricataSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High : upgrade to 7.0.17 soon.

Data as of 2 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
8.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 36% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 7.0.17
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 18 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade suricata and oisf/suricata to 7.0.17.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
OISFsuricataAffected
  • >=7.0.13 <7.0.17
Fixed in
  • 7.0.17
GitHuboisf/suricatapkg:github/oisf/suricataOther threatsAffected
  • >=7.0.13 <7.0.17
Fixed in
  • 7.0.17

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AI-suggested

Upgrade Suricata to version 7.0.17 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. Until the upgrade, consider disabling decode-quoted-printable MIME decoding if feasible to mitigate the risk of crashes.

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.13 until 7.0.17, the SMTP MIME quoted-printable decoder in src/util-decode-mime.c can read one byte past a heap buffer when a quoted-printable escape sequence is split across traffic chunks and the following chunk contains exactly one byte. Crafted SMTP traffic can trigger the out-of-bounds read and crash Suricata when decode-quoted-printable MIME decoding is enabled. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.17.

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