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Medium · 5.1 CVE-2025-64169 EUVD-2025-198506

Wazuh NULL pointer dereference in fim_alert line 666

Published Nov 21, 2025 · Updated Nov 21, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 3.7.0 to before 4.12.0, fim_alert() implementation does not check whether oldsum->md5 is NULL or not before dereferencing it. A compromised agent can cause a crash of analysisd by sending a specially crafted message to the wazuh manager. This issue has been patched in version 4.12.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wazuh wazuh >= 3.7.0, < 4.12.0 —

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