CVE-2022-40497 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Wazuh v3.6.1 - v3.13.5, v4.0.0 - v4.2.7, and v4.3.0 - v4.3.7 were discovered to contain an authenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via the Active Response endpoint.

Published: 2022-09-27

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 2.3% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43772	Wazuh v3.6.1 - v3.13.5, v4.0.0 - v4.2.7, and v4.3.0 - v4.3.7 were discovered to contain an authenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via the Active Response endpoint.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02302.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/14801

History

Wed, 21 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-94
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Wazuh Wazuh

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-27T23:34:13.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-21T15:02:09.029Z

Reserved: 2022-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-40497

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:21:46.182Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-28T00:15:09.523

Modified: 2025-05-21T15:16:00.593

Link: CVE-2022-40497

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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