EUVD Vulnerability Catalog

EUVD-2026-98676

Severity: CRITICAL Base Score: 9.4 CVSS Version: 4.0

Vulnerability Description

Wazuh versions from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contain an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in MasterHandler.process_files_from_worker allowing a cluster worker to overwrite protected master files. Attackers controlling a worker can use a trailing-slash basename bypass and missing extra_valid enforcement to overwrite ossec.conf and agent.conf, achieving root remote code execution across the manager and every agent.

CVSS Vector Analysis

Below is the complete, human-readable breakdown of the CVSS metric string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

▪ Attack Vector (AV): Network

▪ Attack Complexity (AC): Low

▪ Attack Requirements (AT): None

▪ Privileges Required (PR): High

▪ User Interaction (UI): None

▪ Vulnerability Confidentiality Impact (VC): High

▪ Vulnerability Integrity Impact (VI): High

▪ Vulnerability Availability Impact (VA): High

▪ Subsequent Confidentiality Impact (SC): High

▪ Subsequent Integrity Impact (SI): High

▪ Subsequent Availability Impact (SA): High

Affected Vendors & Systems

Vendor wazuh

References & Advisory Links

Metadata Profile

Database Authority

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) EUVD

Assigner

VulnCheck

EPSS Probability

0.55

Known Aliases

CVE-2026-74040

Published On

2026-10-13

Last Updated

2026-10-16