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Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:45:00 +0000
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Wazuh
Wazuh wazuh |
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Wazuh
Wazuh wazuh |
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0000
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ssvc
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Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.8.0 to before version 4.14.4, a stack-based buffer overflow exists in print_hex_string() in wazuh-remoted. The bug is triggered when formatting attacker-controlled bytes using sprintf(dst_buf + 2*i, "%.2x", src_buf[i]) on platforms where char is treated as signed and the compiled code sign-extends bytes before the variadic call. For input bytes such as 0xFF, the formatting can emit "ffffffff" (8 chars) instead of "ff" (2 chars), causing an out-of-bounds write past a fixed 2049-byte stack buffer. The vulnerable path is reachable remotely prior to any agent authentication/registration logic via TCP/1514 when an oversized length prefix causes the “unexpected message (hex)” diagnostic path to run. Additionally, the same unauthenticated oversized-message diagnostic path logs an attacker-controlled hex dump to /var/ossec/logs/ossec.log for each trigger, allowing remote log amplification that can degrade monitoring fidelity and consume disk/I/O. This log amplification is reachable even without triggering the sign-extension overflow (e.g., using bytes < 0x80). This issue has been patched in version 4.14.4. | |
| Title | Wazuh: Pre-auth stack-based buffer overflow in wazuh-remoted print_hex_string() due to signed char promotion on x86_64 | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-121 CWE-400 |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-29T18:34:59.895Z
Reserved: 2026-02-25T15:28:40.650Z
Link: CVE-2026-28221
Updated: 2026-04-29T18:34:50.695Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-04-29T19:16:23.047
Modified: 2026-04-30T20:34:42.827
Link: CVE-2026-28221
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