CVE-2019-7656
highpriority · track · 31OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.005 · 39 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (4)
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references (14)
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- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-7656-PrivEscal-Wowzacnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7656cnnvd
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WowzaMediaSystems/public_cve/main/wowza-streaming-engine/CVE-2019-7656.txtcnnvd
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WowzaMediaSystems/public_cve/master/wowza-streaming-engine/CVE-2019-7656.txtcnnvd
- https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-5-release-notescnnvd
- https://www.wowza.com/pricing/installercnnvd
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-7656-PrivEscal-Wowzaenisa_euvd
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WowzaMediaSystems/public_cve/main/wowza-streaming-engine/CVE-2019-7656.txtenisa_euvd
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