wazuh/wazuh v4.3.0-rc5

Wazuh v4.3.0 RC5

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Manager

Added

• Added support for Arch Linux OS in Vulnerability Detector. Thanks to Aviel Warschawski (@avielw). (#8178)
• Added a log message in the cluster.log file to notify that wazuh-clusterd has been stopped. (#8749)
• Added message with the PID of wazuh-clusterd process when launched in foreground mode. (#9077)
• Added time calculation when extra information is requested to the cluster_control binary. (#10492)
• Added a context variable to indicate origin module in socket communication messages. (#9209)
• Added unit tests for framework/core files to increase coverage. (#9733)
• Added a verbose mode in the wazuh-logtest tool. (#9204)
• Added Vulnerability Detector support for Amazon Linux. (#8830)
• Introduced new option <force> to set the behavior when Authd finds conflicts on agent enrollment requests. (#10693)
• Added saniziters to the unit tests execution. (#9099)
• Vulnerability Detector introduces vulnerability inventory. (#8237)
  • The manager will only deliver alerts when new vulnerabilities are detected in agents or when they stop applying.
• Added a mechanism to ensure the worker synchronization permissions is reset after a fixed period of time. (#11031)
• Included mechanism to create and handle PID files for each child process of the API and cluster. (#11799)
• Added support for Windows 11 in Vulnerability Detector. (#12446)

Changed

• Changed the internal handling of agent keys in Remoted and Remoted to speed up key reloading. (#8083)
• The option <server> of the Syslog output now supports hostname resolution. (#7885)
• The product's UNIX user and group have been renamed to "wazuh". (#7763)
• The MITRE database has been redesigned to provide full and searchable data. (#7865)
• The static fields related to FIM have been ported to dynamic fields in Analysisd. (7358)
• Changed all randomly generated IDs used for cluster tasks. Now, uuid4 is used to ensure IDs are not repeated. (8351)
• Improved sendsync error log to provide more details of the used parameters. (#8873)
• Changed walk_dir function to be iterative instead of recursive. (#9708)
• Refactored Integrity sync behavior so that new synchronizations do not start until extra-valid files are processed. (#10183)
• Changed cluster synchronization, now the content of the etc/shared folder is synchronized. (#10101)
• Changed all XML file loads. Now, defusedxml library is used to avoid possible XML-based attacks. (8351)
• Changed configuration validation from execq socket to com socket. (#8535)
• Updated utils unittest to improve process_array function coverage. (#8392)
• Changed request_slice calculation to improve efficiency when accessing wazuh-db data. (#8885)
• Improved the retrieval of information from wazuh-db so it reaches the optimum size in a single iteration. (#9273)
• Optimized the way framework uses context cached functions and added a note on context_cached docstring. (#9234)
• Improved framework regexes to be more specific and less vulnerable. (#9332)
• Unified framework exceptions for non-active agents. (#9423)
• Changed RBAC policies to case insensitive. (#9433)
• Refactored framework stats module into SDK and core components to comply with Wazuh framework code standards. (#9548)
• Changed the size of the agents chunks sent to the upgrade socket to make the upgrade endpoints faster. (#10309)
• Refactored rootcheck and syscheck SDK code to make it clearer. (#9408)
• Adapted Azure-logs module to use Microsoft Graph API instead of Active Directory Graph API. (#9738)
• Analysisd now reconnects to Active Response if Remoted or Execd get restarted. (#8060)
• Agent key polling now supports cluster environments. (#10335)
• Extended support of Vulnerability Detector for Debian 11 (Bullseye). (#10357)
• Improved Remoted performance with an agent TCP connection sending queue. (#10326)
• Agent DB synchronization has been boosted by caching the last data checksum in Wazuh DB. (#9093)
• Logtest now scans new ruleset files when loading a new session. (#8892)
• CVE alerts by Vulnerability Detector now include the time of detection, severity, and score. (#8237)
• Fixed manager startup when <database_output> is enabled. (#10849)
• Improved cluster performance using multiprocessing.
  • Changed the cluster local_integrity task to run in a separate process to improve overall performance. (#10767)
  • The cluster communication with the database for agent information synchronization runs in a parallel separate process. (#10807)
  • The cluster processing of the extra-valid files in the master node is carried out in a parallel separate process. (#10920)
  • The cluster's file compression task in the master node is carried out in a parallel separate process. (#11328)
  • Now the processing of Integrity files in worker nodes is carried out in a parallel separate process (#11364)
  • Use cluster and API single processing when the wazuh user doesn't have permissions to access /dev/shm. (#11386)
• Changed the Ubuntu OVAL feed URL to security-metadata.canonical.com. (#12491)

Fixed

• Fixed a memory defect in Remoted when closing connection handles. (#8223)
• Fixed a timing problem in the manager that might prevent Analysisd from sending Active responses to agents. (#7625)
• Fixed a bug in Analysisd that did not apply field lookup in rules that overwrite other ones. (#8210)
• Prevented the manager from leaving dangling agent database files. (#8902)
• Corrected remediation message for error code 6004. (#8254)
• Fixed a bug when deleting non-existing users or roles in the security SDK. (#8157)
• Fixed a bug with agent.conf file permissions when creating an agent group. (#8418)
• Fixed wrong exceptions with wdb pagination mechanism. (#8422)
• Fixed error when loading some rules with the \ character. (#8747)
• Changed WazuhDBQuery class to properly close socket connections and prevent file descriptor leaks. (#9216)
• Fixed error in the api configuration when using the agent_upgrade script. (#10320)
• Handle JSONDecodeError in Distributed API class methods. (#10341)
• Fixed an issue with duplicated logs in Azure-logs module and applied several improvements to it. (#9738)
• Fixed the query parameter validation to allow usage of special chars in Azure module. (#10680)
• Fix a bug running wazuh-clusterd process when it was already running. (#8394)
• Allow cluster to send and receive messages with size higher than request_chunk. (#8732)
• Fixed a bug that caused wazuh-clusterd process to not delete its pidfile when running in foreground mode and it is stopped. (#9077)
• Fixed race condition due to lack of atomicity in the cluster synchronization mechanism. (#10376)
• Fixed bug when displaying the dates of the cluster tasks that have not finished yet. Now n/a is displayed in these cases. (#10492)
• Fixed missing field value_type in FIM alerts. (#9196)
• Fixed a typo in the SSH Integrity Check script for Agentless. (#9292)
• Fixed multiple race conditions in Remoted. (#10421)
• The manager's agent database has been fixed to prevent dangling entries from removed agents. (#10390)
• Fixed the alerts generated by FIM when a lookup operation on an SID fails. (#9765)
• Fixed a bug that caused cluster agent-groups files to be synchronized multiple times unnecessarily. (#10866)
• Fixed an issue in Wazuh DB that compiled the SQL statements multiple times unnecessarily. (#10922)
• Fixed a crash in Analysisd when setting Active Response with agent_id = 0. (#10948)
• Fixed an uninitialized Blowfish encryption structure warning. (#11161)
• Fixed a memory overrun hazard in Vulnerability Detector. (#11262)
• Fixed a bug when using a limit parameter higher than the total number of objects in the wazuh-db queries. (#11282)
• Prevented a false positive for MySQL in Vulnerability Detector. (#11440)
• Fixed segmentation fault in Analysisd when setting the number of queues to zero. (#11448)
• Fixed false positives in Vulnerability Detector when scanning OVAl for Ubuntu Xenial and Bionic. (#11440)
• Fixed an argument injection hazard in the Pagerduty integration script. Reported by Jose Maria Zaragoza (@JoseMariaZ). (#11835)
• Fixed memory leaks in the feed parser at Vulnerability Detector. (#11863)
  • Architecture data member from the RHEL 5 feed.
  • RHSA items containing no CVEs.
  • Unused RHSA data member when parsing Debian feeds.
• Prevented Authd from exiting due to a pipe signal if Wazuh DB gets closed. (#12368)
• Fixed a buffer handling bug in Remoted that left the syslog TCP server stuck. (#12415)

Removed

• The data reporting for Rootcheck scans in the agent_control tool has been deprecated. (#8399)
• Removed old framework functions used to calculate agent status. (#8846)

Agent

Added

• Added an option to allow the agent to refresh the connection to the manager. (#8016)
• Introduced a new module to collect audit logs from GitHub. (#8532)
• FIM now expands wildcarded paths in the configuration on Windows agents. (8461)
• FIM reloads wildcarded paths on full scans. (8754)
• Added new path_suffix option to AWS module configuration. (#8306)
• Added new discard_regex option to AWS module configuration. (8331)
• Added support for the S3 Server Access bucket type in AWS module. (#8482)
• Added support for Google Cloud Storage buckets using a new GCP module called gcp-bucket. (#9119)
• Added support for Google Cloud Storage access logs to the gcp-bucket module. (#9119)
• Added support for VPC endpoints in AWS module. (#9420)
• Added support for GCS access logs in the GCP module. (#9279)
• Added an iam role session duration parameter to AWS module. (#10198)
• Added support for variables in SCA policies. (#8826)
• FIM now fills an audit rule file to support who-data although Audit is in immutable mode. (#7721)
• Introduced an integration to collect audit logs from Office365. (#8957)
• Added a new field DisplayVersion to Syscollector to help Vulnerability Detector match vulnerabilities for Windows. (#10168)
• Added support for macOS agent upgrade via WPK. (#10148)
• Added Logcollector support for macOS logs (Unified Logging System). (#8632)

Changed

• The agent now reports the version of the running AIX operating system to the manager. (#8381)
• Improved the reliability of the user ID parsing in FIM who-data mode on Linux. (#8604)
• Reword AWS service_endpoint parameter description to suit FIPS endpoints too. (#10230)
• Extended support of Logcollector for MySQL 4.7 logs. Thanks to @YoyaYOSHIDA. (#5047)
• Agents running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD now report their IP address. (#9887)
• Reduced verbosity of FIM debugging logs. (#8202)
• The agent's IP resolution frequency has been limited to prevent high CPU load. (#9992)
• Syscollector has been optimized to use lees memory. (#10236)
• Added support of ZscalerOS system information in the agent. (#10337)
• Syscollector has been extended to collect missing Microsoft product hotfixes. (#10259)
• Updated the osquery integration to find the new osqueryd location as of version 5.0. (#10396)
• The internal FIM data handling has been simplified to find files by their path instead of their inode. (#9123)
• Reimplemented the WPK installer rollback on Windows. (#9764)
• Active responses for Windows agents now support native fields from Eventchannel. (#10208)
• Error logs by Logcollector when a file is missing have been changed to info logs. (#10651)
• The agent MSI installer for Windows now detects the platform version to install the default configuration. (#8724)
• Agent logs for inability to resolve the manager hostname now have info level. (#3659)
• Added ID number to connection enrollment logs. (#11276)
• Standardized the use of the only_logs_after parameter in the external integration modules. (#10838)
• Updated DockerListener integration shebang to python3 for Wazuh agents. (#12150)

Fixed

• Fixed a bug in FIM that did not allow monitoring new directories in real-time mode if the limit was reached at some point. (#8784)
• Fixed a bug in FIM that threw an error when a query to the internal database returned no data. (#8941)
• Fixed an error where the IP address was being returned along with the port for Amazon NLB service.(#8362)
• Fixed AWS module to properly handle the exception raised when processing a folder without logs. (#8372
• Fixed a bug with AWS module when pagination is needed in the bucket. (#8433)
• Fixed an error with the ipGeoLocation field in AWS Macie logs. (#8672)
• Changed an incorrect debug message in the GCloud integration module. (#10333)
• Data race conditions have been fixed in FIM. (#7848)
• Fixed wrong command line display in the Syscollector process report on Windows. (#10011)
• Prevented Modulesd from freezing if Analysisd or Agentd get stopped before it. (#10249)
• Fixed wrong keepalive message from the agent when file merged.mg is missing. (#10405)
• Fixed missing logs from the Windows agent when it's getting stopped. (#10381)
• Fixed missing packages reporting in Syscollector for macOS due to empty architecture data. (#10524)
• Fixed FIM on Linux to parse audit rules with multiple keys for who-data. (#7506)
• Fixed Windows 11 version collection in the agent. (#10639)
• Fixed missing Eventchannel location in Logcollector configuration reporting. (#10602)
• Updated CloudWatch Logs integration to avoid crashing when AWS raises Throttling errors. (#10794)
• Fixed AWS modules' log file filtering when there are logs with and without a prefix mixed in a bucket. (#10718)
• Fixed a bug on the installation script that made upgrades not to update the code of the external integration modules. (#10884)
• Fixed issue with AWS integration module trying to parse manually created folders as if they were files. (#10921)
• Fixed installation errors in OS with no subversion. (#11086)
• Fixed a typo in an error log about enrollment SSL certificate. (#11115)
• Fixed unit tests for Windows agent when built on MinGW 10. (#11121)
• Fixed Windows agent compilation warnings. (#10942)
• Fixed the OS version reported by the agent on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. (#11207)
• Prevented Syscollector from truncating the open port inode numbers on Linux. (#11329)
• Fixed agent auto-restart on configuration changes when started via wazuh-control on a Systemd based Linux OS. (#11365)
• Fixed a bug in the AWS module resulting in unnecessary API calls when trying to obtain the different Account IDs for the bucket. (#10952)
• Fixed Azure integration's configuration parsing to allow omitting optional parameters. (#11278)
• Fixed Azure Storage credentials validation bug. (#11296)
• Fixed the read of the hostname in the installation process for openSUSE. (#11455)
• Fixed the graceful shutdown when agent loses connection. (#11425)
• Fixed error "Unable to set server IP address" on the Windows agent. (#11736)
• Fixed reparse option in the AWS VPCFlow and Config integrations. (#11608)
• Removed unnecessary calls to the AWS API made by the VPCFlow and Config integration modules. (#11644)
• Fixed how the AWS Config module parses the dates used to request logs from AWS. (#12324)

Removed

• Removed oscap module files as it was already deprecated since v4.0.0. (#10900)

RESTful API

Added

• Added new PUT /agents/reconnect endpoint to force agents reconnection to the manager. (#7988)
• Added select parameter to the GET /security/users, GET /security/roles, GET /security/rules and GET /security/policies endpoints. (#6761)
• Added type and status filters to GET /vulnerability/{agent_id} endpoint. (#8100)
• Added an option to configure SSL ciphers. (#7490)
• Added an option to configure the maximum response time of the API. (#8919)
• Added new DELETE /rootcheck/{agent_id} endpoint. (#8945)
• Added new GET /vulnerability/{agent_id}/last_scan endpoint to check the latest vulnerability scan of an agent. (#9028)
• Added new cvss and severity fields and filters to GET /vulnerability/{agent_id} endpoint. (#9028)
• Added an option to configure the maximum allowed API upload size. (#9100)
• Added new unit and integration tests for API models. (#9142)
• Added message with the PID of wazuh-apid process when launched in foreground mode. (#9077)
• Added external id, source and url to the MITRE endpoints responses. (#9144)
• Added custom healthchecks for legacy agents in API integration tests, improving maintainability. (#9297)
• Added new unit tests for the API python module to increase coverage. (#9914)
• Added docker logs separately in API integration tests environment to get cleaner reports. (#10238)
• Added new disconnection_time field to GET /agents response. (#10437)
• Added new filters to agents upgrade endpoints. (#10457)
• Added new API endpoints to access all the MITRE information. (#8288)
• Show agent-info permissions flag when using cluster_control and in the GET /cluster/healthcheck API endpoint. (#10947)
• Save agents' ossec.log if an API integration test fails. (#11931)
• Added POST /security/user/authenticate/run_as endpoint to API bruteforce blocking system. (#12085)

Changed

• Renamed SSL protocol configuration parameter. (#7490)
• Reviewed and updated API spec examples and JSON body examples. (#8827)
• Improved the performance of several API endpoints. This is specially appreciable in environments with a big number of agents.
  • Improved PUT /agents/group endpoint. (#8937)
  • Improved PUT /agents/restart endpoint. (#8938)
  • Improved DELETE /agents endpoint. (#8950)
  • Improved PUT /rootcheck endpoint. (#8959)
  • Improved PUT /syscheck endpoint. (#8966)
  • Improved DELETE /groups endpoint and changed API response to be more consistent. (#9046)
• Changed DELETE /rootcheck endpoint to DELETE /experimental/rootcheck. (#8945)
• Reduced the time it takes for wazuh-apid process to check its configuration when using the -t parameter. (#9012)
• Fixed malfunction in the sort parameter of syscollector endpoints. (#9019)
• Improved API integration tests stability when failing in entrypoint. (#9113)
• Made SCA API integration tests dynamic to validate responses coming from any agent version. (#9228)
• Refactored and standardized all the date fields in the API responses to use ISO8601. (#9227)
• Removed Server header from API HTTP responses. (#9263)
• Improved JWT implementation by replacing HS256 signing algorithm with RS256. (#9371)
• Removed limit of agents to upgrade using the API upgrade endpoints. (#10009)
• Changed Windows agents FIM responses to return permissions as JSON. (#10158)
• Adapted API endpoints to changes in wazuh-authd daemon force parameter. (#10389)
• Deprecated use_only_authd API configuration option and related functionality. wazuh-authd will always be required for creating and removing agents. (#10512)
• Improved API validators and related unit tests. (#10745)
• Improved specific module healthchecks in API integration tests environment. (#10905)
• Changed thread pool executors for process pool executors to improve API availability. (#10916)
• Changed HTTPS options to use files instead of relative paths. (#11410)

Fixed

• Fixed inconsistency in RBAC resources for group:create, decoders:update, and rules:update actions. (#8196)
• Fixed the handling of an API error message occurring when Wazuh is started with a wrong ossec.conf. Now the execution continues and raises a warning. (8378)
• Fixed a bug with sort parameter that caused a wrong response when sorting by several fields.(#8548)
• Fixed the description of force_time parameter in the API spec reference. (#8597)
• Fixed API incorrect path in remediation message when maximum number of requests per minute is reached. (#8537)
• Fixed agents' healthcheck error in the API integration test environment. (#9071)
• Fixed a bug with wazuh-apid process handling of pidfiles when running in foreground mode. (#9077)
• Fixed a bug with RBAC group_id matching. (#9192)
• Removed temporal development keys and values from GET /cluster/healthcheck response. (#9147)
• Fixed several errors when filtering by dates. (#9227)
• Fixed limit in some endpoints like PUT /agents/group/{group_id}/restart and added a pagination method. (#9262)
• Fixed bug with the search parameter resulting in invalid results. (#9320)
• Fixed wrong values of external_id field in MITRE resources. (#9368)
• Fixed how the API integration testing environment checks that wazuh-apid daemon is running before starting the tests. (#9399)
• Add healthcheck to verify that logcollector stats are ready before starting the API integration test. (#9777)
• Fixed API integration test healthcheck used in the vulnerability test cases. (#10159)
• Fixed an error with PUT /agents/node/{node_id}/restart endpoint when no agents are present in selected node. (#10179)
• Fixed RBAC experimental API integration tests expecting a 1760 code in implicit requests. (#10322)
• Fixed cluster race condition that caused API integration test to randomly fail. (#10289)
• Fixed PUT /agents/node/{node_id}/restart endpoint to exclude exception codes properly. (#10619)
• Fixed PUT /agents/group/{group_id}/restart endpoint to exclude exception codes properly. (#10666)
• Fixed agent endpoints q parameter to allow more operators when filtering by groups. (#10656)
• Fixed API integration tests related to rule, decoder and task endpoints. (#10830)
• Improved exceptions handling when starting the Wazuh API service. (#11411)
• Fixed race condition while creating RBAC database. (#11598)
• Fixed API integration tests failures caused by race conditions. (#12102)

Removed

• Removed select parameter from GET /agents/stats/distinct endpoint. (#8599)
• Removed GET /mitre endpoint. (#8099)
• Deprecated the option to set log path in the configuration. (#11410)

Ruleset

Added

• Added Carbanak detection rules. (#11306)
• Added Cisco FTD rules and decoders. (#11309)
• Added decoders for AWS EKS service. (#11284)
• Added F5 BIG IP ruleset. (#11394)
• Added GCP VPC Storage, Firewall and Flow rules. (#11191)
• Added Gitlab v12 ruleset. (#11323)
• Added Microsoft Exchange Server rules and decoders. (#11289)
• Added Microsoft Windows persistence by using registry keys detection. (#11390)
• Added Oracle Database 12c rules and decoders. (#11274)
• Added rules for Carbanak step 1.A - User Execution: Malicious File. (#8476)
• Added rules for Carbanak step 2.A - Local Discovery. (#11212)
• Added rules for Carbanak step 2.B - Screen Capture. (#9075)
• Added rules for Carbanak step 5.B - Lateral Movement via SSH. (#9097)
• Added rules for Carbanak step 9.A - User Monitoring. (#11342)
• Added rules for Cloudflare WAF. (#11373)
• Added ruleset for ESET Remote console. (#11013)
• Added ruleset for GITHUB audit logs. (#8532)
• Added ruleset for Palo Alto v8.X - v10.X. (#11137)
• Added SCA policy for Amazon Linux 1. (#11431)
• Added SCA policy for Amazon Linux 2. (#11480)
• Added SCA policy for apple macOS 10.14 Mojave. (#7035)
• Added SCA policy for apple macOS 10.15 Catalina. (#7036)
• Added SCA policy for macOS Big Sur. (#11454)
• Added SCA policy for Microsoft IIS 10. (#11250)
• Added SCA policy for Microsoft SQL 2016. (#11249)
• Added SCA policy for Mongo Database 3.6. (#11247)
• Added SCA policy for NGINX. (#11248)
• Added SCA policy for Oracle Database 19c. (#11245)
• Added SCA policy for PostgreSQL 13. (#11154)
• Added SCA policy for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. (#11223)
• Added SCA policy for Ubuntu 14. (#11432)
• Added SCA policy for Ubuntu 16. (#11452)
• Added SCA policy for Ubuntu 18. (#11453)
• Added SCA policy for Ubuntu 20. (#11430)
• Added SCA policy for. Solaris 11.4. (#11286)
• Added Sophos UTM Firewall ruleset. (#11122)
• Added Wazuh-api ruleset. (#11357)

Changed

• Updated audit rules. (#11016)
• Updated AWS s3 ruleset. (#11177)
• Updated Exim 4 decoder and rules to latest format. (#11344)
• Updated MITRE DB with latest MITRE JSON specification. (#8738)
• Updated multiple rules to remove alert_by_email option. (#11255)
• Updated NextCloud ruleset. (#11795)
• Updated ProFTPD decoder. (#11232)
• Updated RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 SCA up to version 1.0.1. (#11242)
• Updated rules and decoders for FortiNet products. (#11100)
• Updated SCA policy for CentOS 7. (#11429)
• Updated SCA policy for CentOS 8. (#8751)
• Updated SonicWall rules decoder. (#11263)
• Updated SSHD ruleset. (#11388)

Fixed

• Fixed bad character on rules 60908 and 60884 - win-application rules. (#11117)
• Fixed Microsoft logs rules. (#11369)
• Fixed PHP rules for MITRE and groups. (#11405)
• Fixed rules id for Microsoft Windows Powershell. (#11214)

Other

Changed

• Upgraded external SQLite library dependency version to 3.36. (#10247)
• Upgraded external BerkeleyDB library dependency version to 18.1.40. (#10247)
• Upgraded external OpenSSL library dependency version to 1.1.1l. (#10247)
• Upgraded external Google Test library dependency version to 1.11. (#10927)
• Upgraded external Aiohttp library dependency version to 3.8.1. (11436)
• Upgraded external Werkzeug library dependency version to 2.0.2. (11436)
• Upgraded embedded Python version to 3.9.9. (11436)

Fixed

• Fixed error detection in the CURL helper library. (#9168)
• Fixed external BerkeleyDB library support for GCC 11. (#10899)
• Fixed an installation error due to missing OS minor version on CentOS Stream. (#11086)
• Fixed an installation error due to missing command hostname on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. (#11455)