CVE-2025-54866CWE-276

CVE-2025-54866

Medium · published November 22, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.3.0 to before 4.13.0, a missing ACL on "C:\Program Files (x86)\ossec-agent\authd.pass" exposes the password to all "Authenticated Users" on the local machine. This issue has been patched in version 4.13.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions
Published
2025-11-22T00:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
wazuh/wazuh≥ 4.3.0, < 4.13.04.13.0
References (4)
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/commit/606f19e688944ebe5d28d72eb81ac36f8fffb143 · [email protected]https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/31187 · [email protected]https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.13.0 · [email protected]https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-mvfx-ph7m-qm37 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 NOV 18:23Z
    Wazuh installation fails to protected authd.pass on Windows
    cvelistv5