Advisories

Wazuh 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 Memory Exhaustion via SCA YAML Alias Expansion

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • wazuh-agent >= 3.9.0, < 4.14.8

  • wazuh-manager >= 3.9.0, < 4.14.8

CWE
  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
karasu-hakira, vikman90
Description
Wazuh from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contains an uncontrolled YAML alias expansion vulnerability in yaml2json_node that allows a manager-controlled policy to exhaust agent memory. Attackers controlling the manager can push a small SCA policy with nested aliases via merged.mg to OOM-kill wazuh-modulesd on every agent in a group.

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