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CVE-2026-92604: Scirius through 3.8.0 Arbitrary File Write via PCAP Upload

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-16 · updated 2026-09-23
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Scirius through 3.8.0 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the PCAP filestore upload endpoint that allows default User role users to write attacker-controlled JSON content to filesystem paths. Attackers can supply path traversal sequences in the uploaded document's _id field to escape the intended directory and write files with .json extension to arbitrary locations as root.

Affected products

• StamusNetworks scirius: through 3.8.0

References

• https://github.com/StamusNetworks/scirius
• https://github.com/StamusNetworks/scirius/blob/3bb49d383f4801b79e6356f9de9f25806afe0311/suricata/rest_api.py#L105-L113
• https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/scirius.md
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/scirius-through-3.8.0-arbitrary-file-write-via-pcap-upload
• https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/scirius.md

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