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CVE-2026-57223

Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation

CVSS 3.1 7.0 HIGHCheck source for fixed versionsKEV status unknown

Original advisory

cve-program · CVE-2026-57223

Published

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.

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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-57223

Published

suricata

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

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{
                    "vendor": "OISF",
                    "product": "suricata",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "version": ">= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6",
                            "status": "affected"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "< 7.0.17",
                            "status": "affected"
                        }
                    ]
                }

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