Directory Traversal Affecting ossec/ossec-hids package, versions [2.7,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OSSECOSSECHIDS-2366175
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-8446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ossec/ossec-hids.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1