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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-74030

Wazuh 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 Memory Exhaustion via SCA YAML Alias Expansion

Description

Wazuh from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contains an uncontrolled YAML alias expansion vulnerability in yaml2json_node that allows a manager-controlled policy to exhaust agent memory. Attackers controlling the manager can push a small SCA policy with nested aliases via merged.mg to OOM-kill wazuh-modulesd on every agent in a group.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Wazuh wazuh-agent

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.9.0 to < 4.14.8affected
  • 4.14.8unaffected
pkg:github/wazuh/wazuh

Wazuh wazuh-manager

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.9.0 to < 4.14.8affected
  • 4.14.8unaffected
pkg:github/wazuh/wazuh

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