CVE-2026-44254 PUBLISHED

Wazuh: Stack Out-of-Bounds Write in remoted Decompression Path

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 1.0.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2, HandleSecureMessage() in src/remoted/secure.c passes a pointer inside its stack buffer to ReadSecMSG(), and src/os_crypto/shared/msgs.c decompresses up to OS_MAXSTR bytes at that offset. For an encrypted agent message on TCP port 1514 that expands to 65,536 bytes, os_zlib_uncompress() writes a terminating null byte beyond the end of the destination buffer. The resulting stack out-of-bounds write in the root-level remoted daemon can crash message processing and disrupt agent communications. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor wazuh
Product wazuh
Versions
  • Version >= 1.0.0, < 4.14.6 is affected
  • Version >= 5.0.0-beta1, < 5.0.0-beta2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-131: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE