CVE-2025-29918
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.06%
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. A PCRE rule can be written that leads to an infinite loop when negated PCRE is used. Packet processing thread becomes stuck in infinite loop limiting visibility and availability in inline mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.
How to fix CVE-2025-29918
To remediate CVE-2025-29918, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1:6.0.1-3+deb11u1 or later
Is CVE-2025-29918 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:6.0.1-3+deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |