Directory Traversal Affecting suricata package, versions <1:6.0.13-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.11% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-SURICATA-19683817
  • published11 Sept 2026
  • disclosed19 Jun 2023

Introduced: 19 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-35852  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest suricata to version 1:6.0.13-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream suricata package and not the suricata package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1