4.2.2 Release notes - 28 September 2021

This section lists the changes in version 4.2.2. Every update of the Wazuh solution is cumulative and includes all enhancements and fixes from previous releases.

Highlights

This release includes highlighted features and enhancements.

Manager

  • #9779 Authd now refuses enrollment attempts if the agent already holds a valid key. With this added feature, Authd can only generate new keys if the agent key does not exist on the manager side. Based on this, the manager has the capability to decide if a new key should be generated or not. Since the introduction of Enrollment in version 4.0.0, Wazuh provides the user with an automated mechanism to enroll agents with minimal configuration. This registration method might cause agents to self-register under certain circumstances, even if they were already registered. This improvement prevents this issue from happening and avoids re-registering agents that already have valid keys.

Agent

  • #9927 The Google Cloud Pub/Sub integration module is updated to increase processed events per second. The rework of this integration module allows multithreading, increases performance significantly, and adds a new num_threads option to the module configuration. The new multithreading feature allows pulling messages with multiple subscribers simultaneously, improving the performance drastically. In addition, this new Google Cloud integration includes some improvements in the pulling and acknowledging mechanism, and the socket connection as well.

Wazuh Kibana plugin

  • #3175 Wazuh improves the API selector and Index pattern selector of the Wazuh Kibana plugin, moving both from the main menu to the upper right corner of the header bar for quick access. This new UX improvement allows users to have better management of these two features. As for visualization, the API selector is displayed when there is more than one to select. The Index pattern selector is displayed under the same conditions and only contains index patterns that have Wazuh alerts.

  • #3503 Wazuh adds a new functionality that allows users to change the logotype settings of the Wazuh Kibana plugin. From the Logo Customization section of the Configuration page, users can customize the logos of the app easily and to their liking. Setting options include customization of Logo App, Logo Sidebar, Logo Health Check, and Logo Reports.

Logo customization settings

Wazuh Splunk app

  • #1107 Wazuh adds Quick Settings to improve the view and selection of the Wazuh API, Index, and Source type of the Wazuh Splunk app. Now users can change the configuration of these elements easily from this new menu in the app.

Quick settings menu

What's new

This release includes new features or enhancements.

Manager

  • #9133 The agent's inventory data on the manager is correctly cleaned up when Syscollector is disabled.

  • #9779 Authd now correctly refuses enrollment attempts if the agent already holds a valid key.

Agent

  • #9907 Syscollector scan performance is optimized.

  • #9927 The Google Cloud Pub/Sub integration module rework increases the number of processed events per second allowing multithreading and enhancing performance. Also, a new num_threads option is added to the module configuration.

  • #9964 google-cloud-pubsub dependency is now upgraded to the latest stable version (2.7.1).

  • #9443 The WPK installer rollback is reimplemented on Linux.

  • #10217 Updated AWS WAF implementation to change httpRequest.headers field format.

RESTful API

  • #10219 Made SSL ciphers configurable and renamed SSL protocol option.

Wazuh Kibana plugin

  • #3170 Wazuh support links are added to the Kibana help menu. You now get quick access to the Wazuh Documentation, Slack channel, Projects on GitHub, and Google Group.

  • #3184 You now can access group details directly by using the group query parameter in the URL.

  • #3222 #3292 A new configuration is added to disable Wazuh App access from X-Pack/ODFE role.

  • #3221 New confirmation message is now displayed when closing a form.

  • #3503 Wazuh introduces a new Logo Customization section that allows you to change and customize app logotypes.

  • #3592 The link to the Wazuh Upgrade guide is now included in the message shown when the Wazuh API version and the Wazuh App version mismatch.

  • #3160 To improve user experience, module titles are now removed from the dashboards.

  • #3174 The default wazuh.monitoring.creation app setting is changed from d to w.

  • #3174 The default wazuh.monitoring.shards app setting is changed from 2 to 1.

  • #3189 SHA1 field is removed from the Windows Registry details pane.

  • #3250 Removed tooltip from header breadcrumb to improve readability.

  • #3197 Refactoring of the Health check component improves user experience.

  • #3210 When deploying a new agent, the Install and enroll the agent command now specifies the version in the package downloaded name.

  • #3243 In the vulnerabilities Inventory, the restriction that only allowed current active agents’ information to be shown is removed. Now, it displays the vulnerabilities table regardless of whether the agent is connected or not.

  • #3175 To improve user experience of the Wazuh Kibana API, the Index pattern selector and API selector are moved to the header bar.

  • #3258 Health check actions' notifications are refactored and the process can now be run in debug mode.

  • #3349 Changed the way kibana-vis hides the visualization while loading. This improvement prevents errors caused by having a 0 height visualization.

Wazuh Splunk app

  • #1083 Added MITRE ATT&CK framework integration.

  • #1076 Added MITRE ATT&CK dashboard integration.

  • #1109 Wazuh now gives you enhanced insight into the CVE that are affecting an agent. The newly added Inventory dashboard in the Vulnerabilities module allows you to visualize information such as name, version, and package architecture, as well as the CVE ID that affects the package.

  • #1104 New Source type selector is now added to customize queries used by dashboards.

  • #1107 The Wazuh Splunk app now includes a Quick settings menu to improve user experience. This enhancement allows you to quickly view and select the Wazuh API, Index, and Source type.

  • #1118 jQuery version is upgraded from 2.1.0 to 3.5.0.

  • Wazuh supports Splunk 8.1.4.

  • Wazuh supports Splunk 8.2.2.

Resolved issues

This release resolves known issues.

Manager

Reference

Description

#9647

A false positive in Vulnerability Detector is no longer generated when packages have multiple conditions in the OVAL feed.

#9042

This fix prevents pending agents from keeping their state indefinitely in the manager.

#9088

An issue in Remoted is fixed. Now, it checks the group an agent belongs to when it receives the keep-alive message and avoids agents in connected state with no group assignation.

#9278

An issue in Analysisd that caused the value of the rule option noalert to be ignored is now fixed.

#9378

Fixed Authd's startup to set up the PID file before loading keys.

#9295

An issue in Authd that delayed the agent timestamp update when removing agents is now fixed.

#9705

An error in Wazuh DB that held wrong agent timestamp data is now resolved.

#9942

An issue in Remoted that kept deleted shared files in the multi-groups' merged.mg file is now fixed.

#9987

An issue in Analysisd that overwrote its queue socket when launched in test mode is now resolved.

#10016

This fix prevents false positives when evaluating DU patches in the Windows Vulnerability Detector.

#10214

Memory leak is fixed when generating the Windows report in Vulnerability Detector.

#10194

A file descriptor leak is fixed in Analysisd when delivering an AR request to an agent.

Agent

Reference

Description

#9710

This fix prevents the manager from hashing the shared configuration too often.

#9310

Memory leak is fixed in Logcollector when re-subscribing to Windows EventChannel.

#9967

Memory leak is fixed in the agent when enrolling for the first time with no previous key.

#9934

CloudWatchLogs log stream limit, when there are more than 50 log streams, is now removed.

#9897

Fixed a problem on the Windows installer and now, with this fix, the agent can be successfully uninstalled or upgraded.

#9775

AWS WAF log parsing error is fixed and log parsing now works correctly when there are multiple dictionaries in one line.

#10024

An issue is fixed in the AWS CloudWatch Logs module that caused already processed logs to be collected and reprocessed.

#8256

This fix avoids duplicate alerts from case-insensitive 32-bit registry values in FIM configuration for Windows agents.

#10250

Error with Wazuh path in Azure module is now fixed.

#10210

An issue is fixed in the sources and WPK installer that made the upgrade unable to detect the previous installation on CentOS 7.

RESTful API

Reference

Description

#9984

An issue with distributed API calls when the cluster is disabled is now fixed.

Wazuh Kibana plugin

Reference

Description

#3159

Cluster visualization screen flickering is fixed.

#3161

Links now work correctly when using server.basePath Kibana setting.

#3173

In the Vulnerabilities module, a filter error is resolved and PDF reports are generated with complete Summary information.

#3234

Fixed typo error in the Configuration tab of the Settings page.

#3217

In the agent summary of the Agents data overview page, fields no longer overlap under certain circumstances and are correctly displayed.

#3257

An issue when using the Ruleset Test is now fixed. Now, all requests are made in the session unless you click Clear session.

#3237

Visualize button issue is resolved and the button is displayed when expanding a field in the Events tab sidebar.

#3244

Some modules were missing from the Agents data overview page. This issue is fixed and they are now successfully displayed.

#3260

With this fix, App log messages are improved and WUI error logs removed.

#3272

Some errors on PDF reports are fixed.

#3289

When deploying a new agent, selecting macOS as the operating system in a Safari browser no longer generates a TypeError.

#3297

An issue in the Security configuration assessment module is fixed. SCA checks are displayed correctly.

#3241

An issue with an error message when adding sample data fails is fixed.

#3303

An error in reports is fixed and now the Alerts Summary of modules is generated completely.

#3315

Fixed dark mode visualization background in PDF reports.

#3309

Kibana integrations are now adapted to Kibana 7.11 and 7.12.

#3306

An issue is fixed in the Agents overview window and is now rendered correctly.

#3326

Fixed an issue with miscalculation of table width in PDF reports. With this fix, tables are displayed correctly.

#3323

visData table property is normalized for 7.12 backward compatibility and Alerts Summary table is shown in PDF reports.

#3358

Export-to-CSV buttons in dashboard tables are now fixed.

#3345

Fixed Elastic UI breaking changes errors in 7.12.

#3347

Wazuh main menu and breadcrumb render issues are now fixed.

#3397

This fix prevents some errors from causing a massive increase in logs size.

#3593

Fixed an issue in the Vulnerabilities pane that did not show alerts if the vulnerability had a field missing.

#3240

This fix correctly hides the navbar Wazuh label.

#3355

Labels of some visualizations no longer overlap, improving readability.

Wazuh Splunk app

Reference

Description

#1070

Error when trying to pin filters is fixed.

#1074

Issue in tables without server side pagination is fixed. This allows to load unlimited items but only 1 page at a time preserving client and server resources.

#1077

An issue with the gear icon mispositioned in FIM tables is now fixed.

#1078

Added cache control. With this fix, a message is displayed if the version of the Wazuh app in your browser does not correspond with the app version installed on Splunk.

#1084

Fixed error where tables unset their loading state before finishing API calls.

#1083

An issue about search bar queries with spaces is fixed.

#1083

Fixed pinned fields ending with curly brackets.

#1099

Splunk Cloud compatibility issues are now fixed.

#1103

Agents node names are now correctly displayed for agent overview.

#1103

Reports no longer have missing columns for some tables and are now displayed correctly.

#1112

Issue with expanding row feature in File Integrity Monitoring of agents is now fixed.

Changelogs

More details about these changes are provided in the changelog of each component: