CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8448
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via crafted messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.
Affected configurations
• ossec ossec (>= 2.7 <= 3.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1815 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-33 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ossec.net/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1815 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-33 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ossec.net/ Vendor Advisory