CVE-2026-26206 PUBLISHED

Wazuh: API brute-force protection bypass via race condition in login attempt tracking

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 11.02.2026 Published: 29.04.2026 Updated: 29.04.2026

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.0.0 to before version 4.14.4, Wazuh's server API brute-force protection for POST /security/user/authenticate can be bypassed by sending concurrent authentication requests. Although the configured threshold (max_login_attempts, default 50) is enforced correctly for sequential requests, a parallel burst allows significantly more failed login attempts to be processed before the IP block is applied. This enables an attacker to perform more password guesses than the configured policy intends (e.g., 100 attempts processed where 50 should be allowed). This issue has been patched in version 4.14.4.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor wazuh
Product wazuh
Versions
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.14.4 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts CWE
  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') CWE
  • CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE