CVE-2023-42463highCWE-121

CVE-2023-42463: high-severity vulnerability in wazuh

wazuh-logcollector integer underflow local privilege escalation

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.4epss 0.2%
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. This bug introduced a stack overflow hazard that could allow a local privilege escalation. This vulnerability was patched in version 4.5.3.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
wazuh · wazuh
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