What is CVE-2021-44079?

CVE-2021-44079 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Wazuh, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2021-44079?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Wazuh

CVE-2021-44079

In the wazuh-slack active response script in Wazuh 4.2.x before 4.2.5, untrusted user agents are passed to a curl command line, potentially resulting in remote code execution.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.033 (87.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Wazuh
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-44079?: CVE-2021-44079 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Wazuh, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2021-44079?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.