CVE-2026-45747

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.16, the Lua TLS certificate information helper could dereference NULL certificate fields when a Lua script requested certificate information for TLS traffic where some certificate fields were absent. Crafted TLS traffic processed by a deployment using affected Lua TLS scripting could crash Suricata, resulting in denial of service. Version 7.0.16 contains a fix. As a workaround, avoid Lua scripts that call TLS certificate information helpers on untrusted traffic (`TlsGetCertInfo` function), or update scripts to handle missing certificate fields where possible.

  • Published Sep 10, 2026
  • CVSS 7.5 high
  • 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • Public exploit code is available
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-45747 at the National Vulnerability Database