suricata — security advisory
In Suricata before 6.0.13 (when there is an adversary who controls an external source of rules), a dataset filename, that comes from a rule, may trigger absolute or relative directory traversal, and lead to write access to a local filesystem. This is addressed in 6.0.13 by requiring allow-absolute-filenames and allow-write (in the datasets rules configuration section) if an installation requires traversal/writing in this situation.
- Products
- suricata
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:6.0.13-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-35852
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Suricata before 6.0.13 (when there is an adversary who controls an external source of rules), a dataset filename, that comes from a rule, may trigger absolute or relative directory traversal, and lead to write access to a local filesystem. This is addressed in 6.0.13 by requiring allow-absolute-filenames and allow-write (in the datasets rules configuration section) if an installation requires traversal/writing in this situation.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-35852
suricata
Fixed versions: 1:6.0.13-1
suricata
Fixed versions: 1:6.0.13-1
Complete source record
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