Suricata windows: unquoted LocalSystem service ImagePath can allow local privilege escalation
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
OISF · suricataReferences
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/0dad38fff024b4fec9bc8144d8b94dbca39aac2ehttps://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/2b924d47cc51d0b7760cda3519f2c04a2f65ea38https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ac1b3cc1ef3af65ce92da28261d445167eb8234dhttps://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15676https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-jh8w-wf3f-58jphttps://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8600