High CVSS 7.1

CVE-2026-59674

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.

What this means

Exposure: Exploitable with local access to the machine, with an ordinary user account and with no action from the victim.
Impact: An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
Likelihood: Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published: 14 July 2026
CVSS: 7.1 (v4.0) 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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS: 0.13% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 3% of all CVEs
Weakness: CWE-61
Sources: nvd

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59674