CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-57223
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-09-29
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-428
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, the Windows service installation and parameter-update logic in src/win32-service.c can pass an unquoted service ImagePath to CreateServiceA. When Suricata is installed below a path containing spaces and an earlier path component is writable by a local low-privileged attacker, Windows can execute an attacker-controlled program as LocalSystem, resulting in local privilege escalation. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.
Affected configurations
• oisf suricata (< 7.0.17)
• oisf suricata (>= 8.0.0 < 8.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element weakness
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/0dad38fff024b4fec9bc8144d8b94dbca39aac2e Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/2b924d47cc51d0b7760cda3519f2c04a2f65ea38 Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ac1b3cc1ef3af65ce92da28261d445167eb8234d Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15676 Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17 Release Notes
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6 Release Notes
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-jh8w-wf3f-58jp Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8600 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory