Description
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 4.4.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2, api/api/middlewares.py decodes the Basic authentication username before credential validation and passes it to the access logger without neutralizing control characters. api/api/alogging.py interpolates that value into the plain-text API log. An unauthenticated attacker can include carriage returns or line feeds in the username to forge entries, obscure activity, or poison systems that consume the plain-text audit log. The JSON log format is not affected because JSON serialization escapes these characters. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2.
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History
Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From 4.4.0 until 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2, api/api/middlewares.py decodes the Basic authentication username before credential validation and passes it to the access logger without neutralizing control characters. api/api/alogging.py interpolates that value into the plain-text API log. An unauthenticated attacker can include carriage returns or line feeds in the username to forge entries, obscure activity, or poison systems that consume the plain-text audit log. The JSON log format is not affected because JSON serialization escapes these characters. This issue is fixed in versions 4.14.6 and 5.0.0-beta2. | |
| Title | Wazuh: CRLF Log Injection via Unsanitized Basic-Auth Username | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-117 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T18:18:11.834Z
Reserved: 2026-05-05T16:33:55.844Z
Link: CVE-2026-44256
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T17:18:48.930
Modified: 2026-08-19T17:18:48.930
Link: CVE-2026-44256
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-19T18:30:03Z
Weaknesses
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CWE-117
Improper Output Neutralization for Logs