{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "versions": [
              {
                "introduced": "2.7"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "3.5.0"
              }
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "ec19fd9e712e8ee710ec7d29b9f1476a95913db8"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "b1d087f83cd9693841f2baeede532397fbfa2d03"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a use-after-free during processing of ossec-alert formatted msgs (received from authenticated remote agents and delivered to the analysisd processing queue by ossec-remoted).",
  "id": "CVE-2020-8444",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T23:10:31.460323972Z",
  "published": "2020-01-30T01:15:10.837Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-33"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.ossec.net/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1817"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}