CVE-2026-74038CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-74038

High · published August 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service by enrolling an agent with a dot-sequence name such as ".." through the enrollment port. Attackers exploit insufficient validation in OS_IsValidName() and unsafe path concatenation in delete_diff() to resolve the traversal to the parent queue directory, causing its subdirectories to be removed and stopping all Wazuh services requiring manual recovery.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
7.0 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00546 · 45.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-08-18T22:19Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
wazuh/wazuh≥ 4.0.0, < 4.14.64.14.6
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 AUG 17:25Z
    Wazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.6 Path Traversal DoS via Agent Enrollment
    cvelistv5