CVE-2026-71855
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, src/flow-hash.c can treat an IPv4 and IPv6 flow as equal without comparing the IP family when their raw address words, ports, protocol, VLAN, recursion level, live device, and hash bucket align. An IPv6 packet can therefore reuse IPv4 flow state or the reverse, causing incorrect flowbit state, detection bypass, or IP-only bypass. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/181b3b2fdd1fe87e4534de4fc79e29a083ef125f
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/4e2f23d031fbcfd72883bacd3d723c9874f23701
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bc41dcc854e24487d3786ce578a8a86a8350ab20
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-fvwh-wjcq-2586
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8558
CWEs
CWE-697
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.