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Wazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.7 API DoS via Deeply Nested JSON auth_context

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severity
high
date
Affecting

  • wazuh-manager >= 4.0.0, < 4.14.7

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
APhuongKMA, jepalfer
Description
Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with allow_run_as enabled to exhaust CPU resources by submitting arbitrarily deeply nested JSON structures to the POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint. Attackers can repeatedly submit malformed auth_context bodies with unlimited nesting depth to cause the API framework to consume excessive CPU, denying service to all other API consumers.

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