CVE-2025-64335: Suricata is vulnerable to a null deref when used with base64_data
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.44% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: OISF suricata 8.0.2.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to OISF suricata 8.0.2 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions from 8.0.0 to before 8.0.2, a NULL dereference can occur when the entropy keyword is used in conjunction with base64_data. This issue has been patched in version 8.0.2. A workaround involves disabling rules that use entropy in conjunction with base64_data.
- Published
- Nov 26, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 18, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 38th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-476
Report tools
Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 7.5
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| oisf | suricata | cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- oisf suricata8.0.0 and later · before 8.0.2
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
OISF suricata
- >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.2affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | suricata | before 1:8.0.2-1 | 1:8.0.2-1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | suricata | before 8.0.3-1.1 | 8.0.3-1.1 |
Same product
oisf: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2018-10244Suricata version 4.0.4 incorrectly handles the parsing of an EtherNet/IP PDU.40Plan
- CVE-2026-22262Suricata datasets: stack overflow when saving a set39Monitor
- CVE-2023-35853In Suricata before 6.0.13, an adversary who controls an external source of Lua rules may be able to execute Lua code.39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-64333Nov 26, 2025 · Suricata is vulnerable to a stack overflow from big content-type30Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-64334Nov 26, 2025 · Suricata is vulnerable to unbounded memory growth for decompression30Monitor
- Later →CVE-2025-64344Nov 26, 2025 · Suricata is vulnerable to a stack overflow from unbounded stack allocation in LuaPushStringBuffer30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| OISF suricata | 8.0.2 · description | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:suricata | 1:8.0.2-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:suricata | 8.0.3-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2025-5914856 days apartSuricata's improper use of entropy keyword can lead to a NULL-ptr deref30Monitor
- CVE-2025-5915056 days apartSuricata: Keyword tls.subjectaltname can lead to NULL-ptr deref30Monitor
- CVE-2026-31931127 days apartSuricata tls: null dereference in tls.alpn rule keyword30Monitor
- CVE-2026-45747288 days apartSuricata lua/tls: null dereference in TlsGetCertInfo30Monitor
- CVE-2024-38536503 days apartSuricata http/range: NULL-ptr deref when http.memcap is reached30Monitor
- CVE-2026-57225296 days apartSuricata datasets: NULL pointer dereference in JSON/NDJSON dataset loading22Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer DereferenceCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.