CVE-2025-54866

Wazuh installation fails to protected authd.pass on Windows

State: Published
Severity: 1.8 Low
Published: Nov 21, 2025
Updated: Nov 21, 2025
Reserved: Jul 31, 2025

Description

Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.3.0 to before 4.13.0, a missing ACL on "C:\Program Files (x86)\ossec-agent\authd.pass" exposes the password to all "Authenticated Users" on the local machine. This issue has been patched in version 4.13.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	1.8 Low	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wazuhwazuh	>= 4.3.0, < 4.13.0Affected

References

https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-mvfx-ph7m-qm37
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/31187
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/commit/606f19e688944ebe5d28d72eb81ac36f8fffb143
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.13.0

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