Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.5, a Lua rule that registers too many flow variables can corrupt Lua detection state and may bypass Suricata's restricted Lua sandbox. This requires an affected Lua script/rule to be loaded. Excessive flow variables being registered may also cause Suricata to crash. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, disable `security.lua.allow-rules` unless Lua rules are required.
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Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.5, a Lua rule that registers too many flow variables can corrupt Lua detection state and may bypass Suricata's restricted Lua sandbox. This requires an affected Lua script/rule to be loaded. Excessive flow variables being registered may also cause Suricata to crash. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, disable `security.lua.allow-rules` unless Lua rules are required. | |
| Title | Suricata lua: excessive flow variable registration can bypass sandbox | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-693 CWE-787 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-09-10T21:42:03.007Z
Updated: 2026-09-10T21:42:22.056Z
Reserved: 2026-05-13T07:45:21.251Z
Link: CVE-2026-45770
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-10T22:16:57.117
Modified: 2026-09-10T22:16:57.117
Link: CVE-2026-45770
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