CVE-2026-59674

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

Published: Jul 14, 2026Updated: Jul 15, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-61

N/ACVSS

NVD MITRE

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.

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Weaknesses

CWE-61

Affected Products

SUSE

commercial·DE

openSUSE TumbleweedOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

Exploitability

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References

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

bugzilla.suse.com

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