Wazuh privilege escalation | CVE-2023-42463

NAME
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Wazuh privilege escalation

Platforms Affected:
Wazuh Wazuh 4.5.2

Risk Level:
7.4

Exploitability:
Unproven

Consequences:
Gain Privileges

DESCRIPTION
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Wazuh could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in the processing of the multilines log format. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root.

CVSS 3.0 Information
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Privileges Required:
None

User Interaction:
None

Scope:
Unchanged

Access Vector:
Local


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