Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 21, 2025· Updated Nov 21, 2025
Wazuh installation fails to protected authd.pass on Windows
CVE-2025-54866
Description
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.3.0 to before 4.13.0, a missing ACL on "C:\Program Files (x86)\ossec-agent\authd.pass" exposes the password to all "Authenticated Users" on the local machine. This issue has been patched in version 4.13.0.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
4- github.com/wazuh/wazuh/commit/606f19e688944ebe5d28d72eb81ac36f8fffb143mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/wazuh/wazuh/pull/31187mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.13.0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-mvfx-ph7m-qm37mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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