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Wazuh 4.4.0 < 4.14.7 DoS via fdecompress_files() Zip Bomb

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • wazuh-manager >= 4.4.0, < 4.14.7

CWE
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
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
moltenbit, jotacarma90
Description
Wazuh 4.4.0 before 4.14.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the fdecompress_files() function within cluster.py that allows authenticated cluster peers to exhaust memory by supplying a malicious synchronization archive without decompressed size limits. Attackers holding a valid cluster Fernet key can upload a small, highly compressed zip bomb archive that forces wazuh-clusterd on the master node to decompress the full payload into memory, causing memory exhaustion and service disruption.

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