CVE-2026-57223 - Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation
Brief
CVE ID : CVE-2026-57223
Published : Sept. 18, 2026, 8:23 p. m.
- 33 minutes ago
Description : Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.
- 17 and 8.
- 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.
- 6 and 7.
- 17.
Severity: 0.0
- NA
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