Vulnerability Details CVE-2019-7656
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 25.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
Products affected by CVE-2019-7656
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.7.8
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cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:4.8.0