MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-74045 (CVSS 7.1)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 13, 2026Risk 23/100

Wazuh from 3.12.0 before 4.14.8 contains a heap buffer overflow in fim_generate_alert() where full_log is sized from input but written bounded by OS_MAXSTR. An enrolled agent can send a crafted FIM syscheck event to corrupt manager heap memory and deterministically crash wazuh-analysisd, causing a fleet-wide detection outage.

Technical details

CVSS

7.1

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:None

Evidence and sources

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