Bug 2499909 (CVE-2026-59674)

Summary: CVE-2026-59674 suricata: Suricata: Privilege escalation via symbolic link following
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A flaw was found in suricata. This vulnerability, related to improper handling of symbolic links, allows a local `suricata` user to escalate their privileges to root. By exploiting this, an attacker could gain full control over the affected system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-14 08:01:19 UTC
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed suricata package allows the suricata user to escalate to root.






This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 8.0.5-2.1; openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 8.0.5-2.1.