7.1
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVE-2025-34294
Wazuh File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) & Active Response Arbitrary File Deletion as SYSTEM
Description

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority as the behavior originates from a documentation-published Active Response example script. Please refer to this advisory ( https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh-documentation/security/advisories/GHSA-46r5-xp98-fpgg ) for further information.

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Published Date :

Oct. 28, 2025, 4:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 19, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-34294 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Wazuh wazuh
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 83251b91-4cc7-4094-a5c7-464a1b83ea10
CVSS 4.0 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Address the TOCTOU race condition in File Integrity Monitoring threat removal.
  • Update Wazuh agent to the patched version.
  • Verify FIM threat removal configurations.
  • Apply vendor-provided security updates.
  • Test threat removal functionality post-update.

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-34294 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Rejected by [email protected]

    Dec. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Wazuh's File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), when configured with automatic threat removal, contains a time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that can allow a local, low-privileged attacker to cause the Wazuh service (running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) to delete attacker-controlled files or paths. The root cause is insufficient synchronization and lack of robust final-path validation in the threat-removal workflow: the agent records an active-response action and proceeds to perform deletion without guaranteeing the deletion target is the originally intended file. This can result in SYSTEM-level arbitrary file or folder deletion and consequent local privilege escalation. Wazuh made an attempted fix via pull request 8697 on 2025-07-10, but that change was incomplete. Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority as the behavior originates from a documentation-published Active Response example script. Please refer to this advisory ( https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh-documentation/security/advisories/GHSA-46r5-xp98-fpgg ) for further information.
    Removed CVSS V4.0 VulnCheck: AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Removed CWE VulnCheck: CWE-367
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/active-response/index.html
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh-documentation/pull/8697
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://wazuh.com/blog/detecting-and-responding-to-malicious-files-using-cdb-lists-and-active-response/
    Removed Reference VulnCheck: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wazuh-file-integrity-monitoring-and-active-response-arbitrary-file-deletion-as-system
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 28, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Wazuh's File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), when configured with automatic threat removal, contains a time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that can allow a local, low-privileged attacker to cause the Wazuh service (running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) to delete attacker-controlled files or paths. The root cause is insufficient synchronization and lack of robust final-path validation in the threat-removal workflow: the agent records an active-response action and proceeds to perform deletion without guaranteeing the deletion target is the originally intended file. This can result in SYSTEM-level arbitrary file or folder deletion and consequent local privilege escalation. Wazuh made an attempted fix via pull request 8697 on 2025-07-10, but that change was incomplete.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-367
    Added Reference https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/active-response/index.html
    Added Reference https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh-documentation/pull/8697
    Added Reference https://wazuh.com/blog/detecting-and-responding-to-malicious-files-using-cdb-lists-and-active-response/
    Added Reference https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wazuh-file-integrity-monitoring-and-active-response-arbitrary-file-deletion-as-system
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Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.1
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