Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-48162
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 4.0.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta3, DistributedAPI.send_tmp_file() in framework/wazuh/core/cluster/dapi/dapi.py joins an attacker-controlled tmp_file value to WAZUH_PATH without canonicalization or confinement. A cluster peer holding the shared Fernet key can use traversal or an absolute path to make the master return any readable file over the cluster channel. Reading /var/ossec/api/configuration/security/private_key.pem allows the peer to forge administrator REST API tokens offline and then exercise administrative privileges without creating an account. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta3.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 48.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.1
Products affected by CVE-2026-48162
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.10.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.11.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.13.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.14.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.3.9
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:4.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wazuh:wazuh:5.0.0