Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-49275 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Wazuh
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. A NULL pointer dereference was detected during fuzzing of the analysis engine, allowing malicious clients to DoS the analysis engine. The bug occurs when `analysisd` receives a syscollector message with the `hotfix` `msg_type` but lacking a `timestamp`. It uses `cJSON_GetObjectItem()` to get the `timestamp` object item and dereferences it without checking for a `NULL` value. A malicious client can DoS the analysis engine. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.7.1.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/blob/e1d5231b31b68a75f3b8b33f833155b362411078/src/analysisd/decoders/syscollector.c#L1573
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/blob/e1d5231b31b68a75f3b8b33f833155b362411078/src/analysisd/decoders/syscollector.c#L1573
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/blob/e1d5231b31b68a75f3b8b33f833155b362411078/src/analysisd/decoders/syscollector.c#L1578
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/blob/e1d5231b31b68a75f3b8b33f833155b362411078/src/analysisd/decoders/syscollector.c#L1578
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-4mq7-w9r6-9975
- https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-4mq7-w9r6-9975