CVE-2026-59674

LPE from suricata user to root due to chown in %post in suricata packaging

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Jul 14, 2026
Updated: Jul 15, 2026
Reserved: Jul 6, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/S:N	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openSUSE TumbleweedSUSE	? to before 8.0.5-2.1Affected
openSUSE TumbleweedSUSE	? to before 8.0.5-2.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-59674

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