CVE-2026-74044: Wazuh

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wazuh 4.0.0 before 4.14.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows authenticated cluster peers to delete arbitrary directory contents by supplying a traversal-shaped node name in the cluster hello payload without validation. Attackers holding a valid cluster Fernet key can craft a malicious node name and disconnect, triggering the master's peer cleanup routine to remove the contents of arbitrary directories within the Wazuh installation path writable by the wazuh user.

Affected products

• Wazuh Wazuh: from 4.0.0, before 4.14.6 (fixed in 4.14.6)

Published 2026-08-18. Last modified 2026-10-01.