CVE-2025-62785CWE-252CWE-476

CVE-2025-62785

High 路 published October 29, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

鈿狅笍 A crafty message could send your Wazuh analysisd crashing! This vulnerability allows a compromised agent to exploit a lack of NULL checks, leading to downtime. 馃敟 Think of it like a restaurant that serves orders without checking if the ingredients are fresh. If a bad batch gets through, it could lead to a culinary disaster and leave hungry customers waiting! If an attacker sends a specially crafted message to the Wazuh manager, they can cause analysisd to crash, effectively making your threat detection tools unavailable. This downtime can hinder your ability to respond to genuine threats, putting your entire security posture at risk!

Put simply

Think of it like a restaurant that serves orders without checking if the ingredients are fresh. If a bad batch gets through, it could lead to a culinary disaster and leave hungry customers waiting! CVE-2025-62785 arises because the fillData() function in Wazuh does not validate whether the value is NULL before calling os_strdup(). This oversight allows an attacker to craft a message that can crash the analysisd process.

What to do

If an attacker sends a specially crafted message to the Wazuh manager, they can cause analysisd to crash, effectively making your threat detection tools unavailable. This downtime can hinder your ability to respond to genuine threats, putting your entire security posture at risk! To safeguard your system, upgrade Wazuh to version 4.10.2 or later immediately. Additionally, consider reviewing your agent message-handling to ensure more robust error checking and input validation. This is fixable! Get those updates rolling, and you'll be back to superhero status in no time! 馃Ω

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 路 HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00440 路 37.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-252 路 Unchecked Return Value; CWE-476 路 NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-10-29T20:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
wazuh/wazuh< 4.10.24.10.2
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 OCT 15:37Z
    Wazuh fillData NULL pointer dereference causes analysisd crash
    cvelistv5