CVE-2026-57223Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 0.15%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 95% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
References
References8
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-jh8w-wf3f-58jp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15676 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/0dad38fff024b4fec9bc8144d8b94dbca39aac2e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/2b924d47cc51d0b7760cda3519f2c04a2f65ea38 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ac1b3cc1ef3af65ce92da28261d445167eb8234d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8600 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-83396 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-57223)Record last updated .