Medium
Security advisory
In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8446
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.
osv:CVE-2020-8446
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:32.016534239Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-33",
"https://www.ossec.net/",
"https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1813"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384405,
"published_at": "2020-01-30T01:15:10.993+00:00"
}