CVE-2026-59674 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00129.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Suse	Opensuse Tumbleweed

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Vendors	Products
Suse	Opensuse Tumbleweed

References

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

History

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Suse Suse opensuse Tumbleweed
Vendors & Products		Suse Suse opensuse Tumbleweed

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		LPE from suricata user to root due to chown in %post in suricata packaging
Weaknesses		CWE-61
References		https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-59674
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 7.1, 'vector': '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'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published: 2026-07-14T07:32:35.363Z

Updated: 2026-07-14T12:33:36.954Z

Reserved: 2026-07-06T11:59:28.118Z

Link: CVE-2026-59674

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-14T12:33:13.348Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-14T08:30:05Z

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