CVE-2026-92604
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
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
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.