{"id":"CVE-2026-74030","title":"Wazuh from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contains an uncontrolled YAML alias expansion vulnerability in yaml2json_node that allows a manager-controlled policy to exhaust agent memory","summary":"Wazuh from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contains an uncontrolled YAML alias expansion vulnerability in yaml2json_node that allows a manager-controlled policy to exhaust agent memory. Attackers controlling the manager can push a small SCA policy w…","severity":"medium","cvss":4.9,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-776"],"published":"2026-10-13","updated":"2026-10-13","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-13T20:39:48.767","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74030","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.14.8","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-x8v7-g49q-ff7j","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wazuh-3.9.0-before-4.14.8-memory-exhaustion-via-sca-yaml-alias-expansion","label":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-13T14:29:01.859Z","vendor":"Wazuh","product":"wazuh-agent","affected":["wazuh-agent >= 3.9.0 < 4.14.8","wazuh-manager >= 3.9.0 < 4.14.8"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-10-13T15:47:51.914553Z"},"epss":0.00403,"epssPercentile":0.34338,"slug":"CVE-2026-74030","body":"## Overview\n\nWazuh from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contains an uncontrolled YAML alias expansion vulnerability in yaml2json_node that allows a manager-controlled policy to exhaust agent memory. Attackers controlling the manager can push a small SCA policy with nested aliases via merged.mg to OOM-kill wazuh-modulesd on every agent in a group.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":27,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}