CVE-2026-41424 PUBLISHED

Wazuh: Privilege Escalation via Admin-Protection Bypass in update-user API Endpoint

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 4.9.0 until 4.10.4 and 4.14.6, PUT /security/users/{user_id} in api/api/controllers/security_controller.py passes request.get("user") instead of request.context['token_info']['sub'] as current_user. remove_nones_to_dict() removes the resulting None value, so the reserved-account protection in framework/wazuh/security.py cannot verify who is making the request. An authenticated user with the users_admin role can overwrite the password of protected administrator accounts with user IDs at or below 99, including the wazuh superuser, and gain full administrative control. This issue is fixed in versions 4.10.4 and 4.14.6.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor wazuh
Product wazuh
Versions
  • Version >=4.9.0, < 4.10.4 is affected
  • Version >= 4.11.0, < 4.14.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE