CVE-2026-74038

High

Description

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service by enrolling an agent with a dot-sequence name such as ".." through the enrollment port. Attackers exploit insufficient validation in OS_IsValidName() and unsafe path concatenation in delete_diff() to resolve the traversal to the parent queue directory, causing its subdirectories to be removed and stopping all Wazuh services requiring manual recovery.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.1
Exploit probability—
ProductWazuh
PublishedAug 18, 2026
First seenAug 18, 2026

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wazuh wazuh4.0.0 ≤ v < 4.14.64.14.6

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