CVE-2020-8446: Ossec

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.

Affected products

• Ossec Ossec: from 2.7, up to and including 3.5.0

Published 2020-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.