Wazuh SIEM version 4.8.2 is affected by a broken access control vulnerability. This issue allows the unauthorized creation of internal users without assigning any existing user role, potentially leading to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to sensitive resources.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: