CVE-2026-44254: medium-severity vulnerability in wazuh
Wazuh: Stack Out-of-Bounds Write in remoted Decompression Path
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.5%
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 1.0.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2, HandleSecureMessage() in src/remoted/secure.c passes a pointer inside its stack buffer to ReadSecMSG(), and src/os_crypto/shared/msgs.c decompresses up to OS_MAXSTR bytes at that offset. For an encrypted agent message on TCP port 1514 that expands to 65,536 bytes, os_zlib_uncompress() writes a terminating null byte beyond the end of the destination buffer. The resulting stack out-of-bounds write in the root-level remoted daemon can crash message processing and disrupt agent communications. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
wazuh · wazuhRelated CVEs — wazuh
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References
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/commit/96772487fbdecd43cc83e284ee7aeb45e3cfcd96https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/35773https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.14.6https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta2https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-9wm4-fp6c-hqgq