Authenticated service interrupt via auth_context recursion
Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 18, 2026
Denial of service in Wazuh manager before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 allows remote authenticated users to stall API authentication. The POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as path recursively walks attacker-supplied auth_context JSON, applies role-defined regular expressions without a timeout, and runs that work through a single-worker authentication pool. Exploitation requires credentials with allow_run_as enabled; repeated deeply nested or oversized requests can monopolize authentication handling and deny service to other API consumers without published evidence of data read or modification.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Wazuh manager before 4.14.7 and 5.0.0-beta2 allows remote authenticated users to stall API authentication. The POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as path recursively walks attacker-supplied auth_context JSON, applies role-defined regular expressions without a timeout, and runs that work through a single-worker authentication pool. Exploitation requires credentials with allow_run_as enabled; repeated deeply nested or oversized requests can monopolize authentication handling and deny service to other API consumers without published evidence of data read or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74039
- Published
- Aug 18, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 18, 2026
- Vendor
- Wazuh
- Product
- Wazuh manager
- Classifications
- CWE-770, CWE-1333, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=4.0.0 <4.14.7
- Affected versionversion=5.0.0-beta2
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- 04b_runas_benchmark.pyproof of concept · demonstrated
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