CVE-2025-24016
Published 2025-02-10 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source security-advisories@github.com
Summary
CVE-2025-24016 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.9) vulnerability in Wazuh Wazuh Server. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 10, 2025, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by July 1, 2025. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns.
All 1 known-exploited Wazuh vulnerabilities →Description
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. Starting in version 4.4.0 and prior to version 4.9.1, an unsafe deserialization vulnerability allows for remote code execution on Wazuh servers. DistributedAPI parameters are a serialized as JSON and deserialized using `as_wazuh_object` (in `framework/wazuh/core/cluster/common.py`). If an attacker manages to inject an unsanitized dictionary in DAPI request/response, they can forge an unhandled exception (`__unhandled_exc__`) to evaluate arbitrary python code. The vulnerability can be triggered by anybody with API access (compromised dashboard or Wazuh servers in the cluster) or, in certain configurations, even by a compromised agent. Version 4.9.1 contains a fix.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Wazuh — Wazuh Server
Name: Wazuh Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Date added: 2025-06-10 · Due: 2025-07-01
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

