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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-01-29T15:21:50

Updated: 2024-08-04T20:54:28.335Z

Reserved: 2019-02-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-7656

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-01-29T16:15:11.990

Modified: 2022-05-03T14:29:32.060

Link: CVE-2019-7656

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