CVE-2026-74041: high-severity vulnerability in wazuh-manager
Wazuh 4.14.3 < 4.14.8 / 4.10.4 Remote Command Validation Bypass via Case Mismatch
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.6epss 0.5%
Wazuh 4.14.3 before 4.14.8 and 4.10.4 contains a case-sensitivity mismatch between the ossec.conf validator and wazuh-logcollector that bypasses remote-command validation. Authenticated users with manager:update_config can inject an uppercase LOG_FORMAT command localfile that the collector runs as root on reload.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Wazuh · wazuh-managerRelated CVEs — wazuh-manager
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-15616HIGHWazuh Agent and Manager OS Command Injection and Untrusted Search PathEPSS 1.7%CVE-2026-74040CRITICALWazuh 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 Arbitrary File Overwrite RCE via process_files_from_workerEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-74035HIGHWazuh 4.6.0 before 4.14.8 Authentication Bypass via Empty Password in update_userEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-74044HIGHWazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.6 Path Traversal Arbitrary Directory Deletion via Cluster HelloEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-74046MEDIUMWazuh 4.4.0 < 4.14.7 DoS via fdecompress_files() Zip BombEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-74039HIGHWazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.7 API DoS via Deeply Nested JSON auth_contextEPSS 0.6%