CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-44901

8.4 HIGH Published 2026-08-19 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-08-19
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 4.0.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2, AffectedItemsWazuhResult.merge() in framework/wazuh/core/results.py trusts the sort_casting field in a cluster worker's JSON response. During a distributed API merge, attacker-controlled type names are resolved through Python builtins without an allowlist. A compromised worker can set sort_casting to exec and place Python source in affected_items, causing the master to execute the payload as root when responses from multiple nodes are merged. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2.

Affected configurations

• wazuh wazuh (>= 4.0.0 < 4.14.6) • wazuh wazuh 5.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References