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Wazuh: Unauthenticated cluster packet length leads to uncontrolled memory allocation (remote DoS)

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. In versions 3.9.0 and above, prior to 4.14.5, a remote attacker can trigger memory exhaustion in the cluster protocol parser by sending a crafted message header with an arbitrarily large payload length. The length is trusted before authentication/decryption and used directly to allocate memory, allowing unauthenticated denial of service of the cluster service. This issue has been fixed in version 4.14.5.

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CVEs
CVE-2026-33754
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4 Nov 2026, 01:33 UTC · Revision 1

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Wazuh: Unauthenticated cluster packet length leads to uncontrolled memory allocation (remote DoS)

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jul 2026, 23:40 UTC

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. In versions 3.9.0 and above, prior to 4.14.5, a remote attacker can trigger memory exhaustion in the cluster protocol parser by sending a crafted message header with an arbitrarily large payload length. The length is trusted before authentication/decryption and used directly to allocate memory, allowing unauthenticated denial of service of the cluster service. This issue has been fixed in version 4.14.5.

osv:CVE-2026-33754
Complete source record
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