Vulnerability detection

Vulnerable software applications are commonly targeted by attackers to compromise endpoints and gain a persistent presence on targeted networks. The Wazuh platform, relying on its software inventory capabilities, maintains an up-to-date list of all applications installed on the endpoints on which the Wazuh agent is installed. By correlating this information with the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), and with information collected from different operating system vendors, Wazuh is able to identify vulnerable applications and produce risk reports.

To detect vulnerable software, Wazuh makes use of a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database created automatically by using data pulled from the following sources:

In order to enable vulnerability detection, users need to configure the Wazuh agent to collect software inventory data, and the Wazuh server to pull CVEs information from the different vulnerability feeds. Here is an example of a vulnerability detection alert:

{
  "agent": {
    "id": "003",
    "ip": "10.0.1.102",
    "name": "Windows"
  },
  "location": "vulnerability-detector",
  "data": {
    "vulnerability": {
      "assigner": "cve@mitre.org",
      "cve": "CVE-2020-12395",
      "cve_version": "4.0",
      "cvss": {
        "cvss2": {
          "base_score": "10",
          "vector": {
            "access_complexity": "low",
            "attack_vector": "network",
            "authentication": "none",
            "availability": "complete",
            "confidentiality_impact": "complete",
            "integrity_impact": "complete"
          }
        }
      },
      "cwe_reference": "CWE-119",
      "package": {
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "condition": "less than 68.8.0",
        "generated_cpe": "a:mozilla:thunderbird:68.0::::::x86_64:",
        "name": "Mozilla Thunderbird 68.0 (x64 en-US)",
        "version": "68.0"
      },
      "published": "2020-05-26",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1595886%2C1611482%2C1614704%2C1624098%2C1625749%2C1626382%2C1628076%2C1631508",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-03",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-04",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4373-1/",
        "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-16/",
        "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-17/",
        "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-18/",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12395"
      ],
      "severity": "High",
      "title": "Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR 68.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.8, Firefox < 76, and Thunderbird < 68.8.0.",
      "updated": "2020-06-12"
    }
  },
  "rule": {
    "description": "CVE-2020-12395 affects Mozilla Thunderbird 68.0 (x64 en-US)",
    "id": "23505",
    "level": 10
  },
  "timestamp": "2020-07-20T00:41:36.302+0000"
}

Vulnerability detection dashboard:

More information about how Wazuh detects software vulnerabilities can be found at the user manual.