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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-74039 EUVD-2026-61075

Wazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.7 API DoS via Deeply Nested JSON auth_context

Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with allow_run_as enabled to exhaust CPU resources by submitting arbitrarily deeply nested JSON structures to the POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint. Attackers can repeatedly submit malformed auth_context bodies with unlimited nesting depth to cause the API framework to consume excessive CPU, denying service to all other API consumers.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Wazuh wazuh-manager 4.0.0 – < 4.14.7, 5.0.0-beta2 4.14.7

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