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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| 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. | |
| Title | Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-428 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-18T20:23:28.227Z
Reserved: 2026-06-24T02:21:33.811Z
Link: CVE-2026-57223
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-18T21:17:00.787
Modified: 2026-09-18T21:17:00.787
Link: CVE-2026-57223
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Updated: 2026-09-19T23:45:08Z
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