Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-8444

Description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a use-after-free during processing of ossec-alert formatted msgs (received from authenticated remote agents and delivered to the analysisd processing queue by ossec-remoted).

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Affected products

OSSEC-HIDS/OSSEC-HIDSdescription
Ossec/Ossec Hidsllm-fuzzy
Range: 2.7 - 3.5.0

Patches

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References

github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1817nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821nvdThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-33nvdThird Party Advisory
www.ossec.netnvdVendor Advisory

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