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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2024-35177 json

Improper Access Control in wazuh-agent

published 2025-02-03 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-35565 , GHSA-pmr2-2r83-h3cv , GO-2025-3444

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. The wazuh-agent for Windows is vulnerable to a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability due to improper ACL of the non-default installation directory. A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by placing one of the many DLL that are loaded and not present on the system in the installation folder of the agent OR by replacing the service executable binary itself with a malicious one. The root cause is an improper ACL applied on the installation folder when a non-default installation path is specified (e.g,: C:\wazuh). Many DLLs are loaded from the installation folder and by creating a malicious DLLs that exports the functions of a legit one (and that is not found on the system where the agent is installed, such as rsync.dll) it is possible to escalate privileges from a low-privileged user and obtain code execution under the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This issue has been addressed in version 4.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/wazuh/wazuh 4.9.0+incompatible
  • wazuh wazuh 4.9.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20250207T224745-150000.1.32.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250204T220613-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14732-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-pmr2-2r83-h3cv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/wazuh/wazuh
>=3.0.0+incompatible, <4.9.0+incompatible
4.9.0+incompatible

Affected products

  • wazuh wazuh

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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