Wazuh Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Synchronous I/O Blocking in Asynchronous Authentication Middleware
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.542% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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ssvc
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| First Time appeared |
Wazuh
Wazuh wazuh |
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Wazuh
Wazuh wazuh |
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| Description | Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. Starting in version 4.3.0 and prior to version 4.14.3, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the Wazuh API authentication middleware (`middlewares.py`). The application uses an asynchronous event loop (Starlette/Asyncio) to call a synchronous function (`generate_keypair`) that performs blocking disk I/O on every request containing a Bearer token. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by flooding the API with requests containing invalid Bearer tokens. This forces the single-threaded event loop to pause for file read operations repeatedly, starving the application of CPU resources and potentially preventing it from accepting or processing legitimate connections. Version 4.14.3 fixes the issue. | |
| Title | Wazuh Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Synchronous I/O Blocking in Asynchronous Authentication Middleware | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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cvssV3_1
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