6.9

CVE-2026-74030: wazuh wazuh-agent XML Entity Expansion

CVSS: 6.9v4.0MediumAwaiting analysis
Published 13-10-2026Last modified 13-10-2026
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-74030 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in wazuh wazuh-agent. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.9/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · Change unavailable
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 13-10-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 with nested aliases via merged.mg to OOM-kill wazuh-modulesd on every agent in a group.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

33%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Change unavailable

Change unavailable

14-10-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wazuh2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

3 links