CVE-2026-44254 (GCVE-0-2026-44254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 16:09 – Updated: 2026-08-19 18:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Wazuh: Stack Out-of-Bounds Write in remoted Decompression Path
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-19 18:03 UTC
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisorie… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/35773 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/commit/96772487fbd… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.14.6 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v5.0.… | x_refsource_MISC |
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