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USN-8766-1: Suricata-Update vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Sep 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC

Summary

Guillem Lefait discovered that Suricata-Update did not properly validate destination paths when extracting files referenced by downloaded rule archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files outside the configured rules directory.

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