Manager crash via stale timestamp pointer dereference
Published Oct 29, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2025
Use after free in Wazuh Manager before 4.11.0 allows remote attackers controlling an agent to crash the analysis daemon with a crafted message. The w_copy_event_for_log() function duplicates lf->dec_timestamp after fim_alert() frees lf->full_log, even though the timestamp still points inside that allocation. Reachability requires an enrolled compromised agent or open agent enrollment; dereferencing the stale pointer causes a demonstrated process crash and can corrupt reused heap data.
Summary
What happened
Use after free in Wazuh Manager before 4.11.0 allows remote attackers controlling an agent to crash the analysis daemon with a crafted message. The w_copy_event_for_log() function duplicates lf->dec_timestamp after fim_alert() frees lf->full_log, even though the timestamp still points inside that allocation. Reachability requires an enrolled compromised agent or open agent enrollment; dereferencing the stale pointer causes a demonstrated process crash and can corrupt reused heap data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-62788
- Published
- Oct 29, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 29, 2025
- Vendor
- Wazuh
- Product
- Wazuh
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 29, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 29, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 4.11.0
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