CVE-2026-54084CWE-476

CVE-2026-54084

Medium · published August 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Wazuh is an open-source security platform providing unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. In versions 4.0.0 through 4.14.6, a malicious or man-in-the-middle enrollment manager can crash a Wazuh agent during enrollment by returning a malformed key response with fewer than four fields, causing a NULL pointer dereference. The  w_enrollment_process_agent_key()  routine splits the manager-provided key into four space-separated fields but does not verify that all fields are present before passing them to validators. Because OS_StrBreak() leaves missing trailing entries as NULL and OS_IsValidName() calls strlen() on its argument without a NULL check, a response such as  OSSEC K:'1'  reaches OS_IsValidName(NULL) and terminates the agent process. Since Wazuh permits enrollment against an unverified manager when no CA certificate is configured, an attacker operating a rogue manager or intercepting the enrollment flow can deterministically crash agents, resulting in denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 4.14.7.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-08-28T04:18Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
wazuh/wazuh≥ 4.0.0, < 4.14.74.14.7
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 23:12Z
    Wazuh agent enrollment NULL pointer dereference via malformed manager response
    cvelistv5