Manager crash via unchecked NULL MD5 pointer
Published Nov 21, 2025 · Updated Nov 21, 2025
Denial of service in Wazuh Manager before 4.12.0 allows remote authenticated users to crash analysisd via a crafted agent message. In fim_alert, syscheck.c dereferences oldsum->md5 without checking for NULL after a malformed Wazuh database record initializes that field incorrectly. Exploitation requires control of an enrolled agent or open enrollment plus a compromised database; regular database flows cannot create the required record.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Wazuh Manager before 4.12.0 allows remote authenticated users to crash analysisd via a crafted agent message. In fim_alert, syscheck.c dereferences oldsum->md5 without checking for NULL after a malformed Wazuh database record initializes that field incorrectly. Exploitation requires control of an enrolled agent or open enrollment plus a compromised database; regular database flows cannot create the required record.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-64169
- Published
- Nov 21, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Wazuh
- Product
- Wazuh
- Classifications
- CWE-476, CWE-252, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 21, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=>= 3.7.0, < 4.12.0
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