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CVE-2026-74046: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in Wazuh wazuh-manager

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-74046cvecve-2026-74046
Published: 08/18/2026 (08/18/2026, 17:27:24 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Wazuh
Product: wazuh-manager

Description

Wazuh 4.4.0 before 4.14.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the fdecompress_files() function within cluster.py that allows authenticated cluster peers to exhaust memory by supplying a malicious synchronization archive without decompressed size limits. Attackers holding a valid cluster Fernet key can upload a small, highly compressed zip bomb archive that forces wazuh-clusterd on the master node to decompress the full payload into memory, causing memory exhaustion and service disruption.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.9medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
wazuh-manager
pkg:github/wazuh-manager
Affected versions
>=4.4.0 <4.14.7

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
VulnCheck
Date Reserved
2026-08-14T14:06:40.513Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a849b61c6e8be03328d7587

Added to database: 08/18/2026, 17:50:25 UTC

Last updated: 08/18/2026, 17:50:25 UTC

Views: 1

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