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.
The REST API in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.4.01 allows traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file via a remote, specifically crafted HTTP request.
In com.wowza.wms.timedtext.http.HTTPProviderCaptionFile in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1, traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file are possible via a remote, specifically crafted HTTP request.
An issue was discovered in the MBeans Server in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. The file system may be read and written to via JMX using the default JMX credentials (remote code execution may be possible as well).
An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. There is an XSS vulnerability in the HTTP providers (com.wowza.wms.http.HTTPProviderMediaList and com.wowza.wms.http.streammanager.HTTPStreamManager) causing script injection and/or reflection via a crafted HTTP request.