CVE-2026-74038 PUBLISHED

Wazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.6 Path Traversal DoS via Agent Enrollment

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 14.08.2026 Published: 18.08.2026 Updated: 18.08.2026

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service by enrolling an agent with a dot-sequence name such as ".." through the enrollment port. Attackers exploit insufficient validation in OS_IsValidName() and unsafe path concatenation in delete_diff() to resolve the traversal to the parent queue directory, causing its subdirectories to be removed and stopping all Wazuh services requiring manual recovery.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7

Product Status

Vendor Wazuh
Product wazuh-manager
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.0.0 to 4.14.6 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade the affected package to 4.14.6 or later.

Credits

  • ik0z reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE