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CVE-2019-7656

Published: Jan 29, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/* core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files, it will run with the same privileges as the Wowza server, root. For example, /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/tune.sh could be replaced with a Trojan horse. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://www.wowza.com/pricing/installer

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https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-7656-PrivEscal-Wowza

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https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-5-release-notes

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WowzaMediaSystems/public_cve/main/wowza-streaming-engine/CVE-2019-7656.txt

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