VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-74039

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-18
Last modified2026-10-22
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with allow_run_as enabled to exhaust CPU resources by submitting arbitrarily deeply nested JSON structures to the POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint. Attackers can repeatedly submit malformed auth_context bodies with unlimited nesting depth to cause the API framework to consume excessive CPU, denying service to all other API consumers.

Weakness classification

  • disclosure@vulncheck.com: CWE-770

Primary references