CVE-2023-35852

Summary

CVE-2023-35852 is a vulnerability affecting Suricata before version 6.0.13. An attacker who can control an external source of rules can exploit this issue by providing a dataset filename that triggers directory traversal, potentially leading to write access to a local filesystem. This vulnerability can be mitigated by requiring explicit allowances for absolute filenames and write access in the datasets rules configuration section in Suricata 6.0.13 and above.

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