CVE-2018-1000167

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

OISF suricata-update version 1.0.0a1 contains an Insecure Deserialization vulnerability in the insecure yaml.load-Function as used in the following files: config.py:136, config.py:142, sources.py:99 and sources.py:131. The "list-sources"-command is affected by this bug. that can result in Remote Code Execution(even as root if suricata-update is called by root). This attack appears to be exploitable via a specially crafted yaml-file at https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/rules/index.yaml. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.0.0b1.

Affected products

OISF Suricata-Update: 1.0.0a1

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2359
https://tech.feedyourhead.at/content/remote-code-execution-in-suricata-update
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2359
https://tech.feedyourhead.at/content/remote-code-execution-in-suricata-update

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