CVE-2026-74040

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.1 under the CNA's CVSS (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.7% (53rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from the CNA's CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-98676 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Wazuh versions from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contain an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in MasterHandler.process_files_from_worker allowing a cluster worker to overwrite protected master files. Attackers controlling a worker can use a trailing-slash basename bypass and missing extra_valid enforcement to overwrite ossec.conf and agent.conf, achieving root remote code execution across the manager and every agent.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
57
EG Risk 57/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
53rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.the CNA's CVSS · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 13, 2026

Last Modified

October 26, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 13, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github, github_release.
Web page

Wazuh 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 Arbitrary File Overwrite RCE via process_files_from_worker | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wazuh-3.9.0-before-4.14.8-arbitrary-file-overwrite-rce-via-process-files-from-worker
GitHub release Patch Available

Wazuh v4.14.8

Patch available: wazuh/wazuh v4.14.8

https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/releases/tag/v4.14.8
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)🟡 PoC Available

Cluster worker can overwrite arbitrary master files (incl. ossec.conf) → root RCE on manager and every agent — bypass of #36296 excluded_files guard + missing extra_valid enforcement · Advisory · wazuh/wazuh · GitHub

https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/security/advisories/GHSA-88p6-7cm8-xwj8

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 13:35 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
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  5. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
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  13. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
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  15. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
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  19. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-20 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  3. 2026-10-19 22:46 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 22:01 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  7. 2026-10-18 03:14 UTCEG score recompute
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  9. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  10. 2026-10-16 22:26 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-16 21:59 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-16 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  14. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  15. 2026-10-15 16:09 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  17. 2026-10-13 14:28 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-13 13:41 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 9.1 CRITICAL
  19. 2026-10-13 13:39 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-74040?
CVE-2026-74040 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 13, 2026. Wazuh versions from 3.9.0 before 4.14.8 contain an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in MasterHandler.process_files_from_worker allowing a cluster worker to overwrite protected master files. Attackers controlling a worker can use a trailing-slash basename bypass and missing extra_valid…
When was CVE-2026-74040 made public?
CVE-2026-74040 was made public on October 13, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 13, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 26, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-74040 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-74040 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (53rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-74040?
CVE-2026-74040 has a CVSS base score of 9.1 (the CNA's own assessment, by vulncheck; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-74040?
A fix for CVE-2026-74040 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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