Wazuh Vulnerability-Detection and Removal of Obsolete Kernel CVEs in a Controlled Manner

Wazuh Vulnerability-Detection and Removal of Obsolete Kernel CVEs in a Controlled Manner

July 18th 2026 / Ambassadors
By Stephan Wenderlich / Gray Hat It Security

The article explains that Wazuh flags CVEs for old, unused kernel packages left installed on RHEL-family systems (like Rocky Linux) due to the installonly_limit setting, and shows how to safely identify and remove those outdated kernels with dnf repoquery/dnf remove (verified with –assumeno first) so the Vulnerability-Detection inventory resolves the stale findings.

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