Wazuh up to 4.9.0 privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Wazuh up to 4.9.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-47770. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Wazuh up to 4.9.0. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. This vulnerability occurs when the system has weak privilege access, that allows an attacker to do privilege escalation. In this case the attacker is able to view agent list on Wazuh dashboard with no privilege access. This issue has been addressed in release version 4.9.1 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-47770 since 09/30/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216199 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.9.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216199). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Wazuh

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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