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CVE-2026-57223 (GCVE-0-2026-57223)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-18 20:23 – Updated: 2026-09-18 20:23
VLAI
Title
Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation
Summary
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.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OISF suricata Affected: >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6
Affected: < 7.0.17
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