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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2026-45767 EUVD-2026-75776

Suricata datasets: save to absolute filename can be bypassed when combined with load command

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5, a malicious rule could potentially overwrite any file on the file system on rule load or reload. Versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5 fix the issue. Some workarounds are available. Preprocess `load`+ `save` rules to disallow absolute filenames for save, use Suricata's privilege dropping to limit writable files, and/or configure landlock in suricata.yaml.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OISF suricata >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.5, < 7.0.16 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 suricata 1:8.0.5-1 —
Debian 13 suricata No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed suricata 8.0.5-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10885-1

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