Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44079

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 22 November 2021

Published
22 November 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0831 92.5th percentile
Risk Priority 25 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44079 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Wazuh Wazuh. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 7.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the wazuh-slack active response script in Wazuh 4.2.x before 4.2.5, untrusted user agents are passed to a curl command line, potentially resulting in remote code execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

wazuh
wazuh
4.2.0 — 4.2.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References