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 de…
Medium CVSS 6.5
Summary
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.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- :
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/37034 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-5vh8-34r8-q74q Exploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wazuh-api-dos-via-deeply-nested-json-auth-context Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-5vh8-34r8-q74q Exploit
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD