{"cve":"CVE-2024-35177","nvd":{"published":"2025-02-03T22:15:27.600","modified":"2026-06-17T07:34:29.370","status":"Analyzed","description":"Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments. The wazuh-agent for Windows is vulnerable to a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability due to improper ACL of the non-default installation directory. A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by placing one of the many DLL that are loaded and not present on the system in the installation folder of the agent OR by replacing the service executable binary itself with a malicious one. The root cause is an improper ACL applied on the installation folder when a non-default installation path is specified (e.g,: C:\\wazuh). Many DLLs are loaded from the installation folder and by creating a malicious DLLs that exports the functions of a legit one (and that is not found on the system where the agent is installed, such as rsync.dll) it is possible to escalate privileges from a low-privileged user and obtain code execution under the context of NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM. This issue has been addressed in version 4.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-284"],"references":["https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-pmr2-2r83-h3cv"],"products":["wazuh:wazuh"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:58:41.599736885+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-35177","score":0.00263,"percentile":0.18198,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GO-2025-3444","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-3444","summary":"Improper Access Control in wazuh-agent in github.com/wazuh/wazuh","modified":"2026-03-03T04:57:11.351975Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/wazuh/wazuh","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/wazuh/wazuh","ranges":[">=3.0.0+incompatible <4.9.0+incompatible"],"fixed":["4.9.0+incompatible"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}