Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with allow_run_as enabled to exhaust CPU resources by submitting arbitrarily deeply nested JSON structures to the POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint. Attackers can repeatedly submit malformed auth_context bodies with unlimited nesting depth to cause the API framework to consume excessive CPU, denying service to all other API consumers.

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Solution

Upgrade the affected package to 4.14.7 or later.


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History

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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Description Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with allow_run_as enabled to exhaust CPU resources by submitting arbitrarily deeply nested JSON structures to the POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint. Attackers can repeatedly submit malformed auth_context bodies with unlimited nesting depth to cause the API framework to consume excessive CPU, denying service to all other API consumers.
Title Wazuh 4.0.0 < 4.14.7 API DoS via Deeply Nested JSON auth_context
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-18T17:26:12.871Z

Reserved: 2026-08-14T14:06:40.512Z

Link: CVE-2026-74039

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-18T18:19:33.760

Modified: 2026-08-18T18:19:33.760

Link: CVE-2026-74039

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Updated: 2026-08-18T18:30:16Z

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