CVE-2023-49599 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted series of HTTP requests can lead to privilege escalation. An attacker can gather system information via HTTP requests and brute force the salt offline, leading to forging a legitimate password recovery code for the admin user.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0029.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Wwbn	Avideo

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-0451	An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted series of HTTP requests can lead to privilege escalation. An attacker can gather system information via HTTP requests and brute force the salt offline, leading to forging a legitimate password recovery code for the admin user.
Github GHSA	GHSA-wqcc-qf63-c2x4	WWBN AVideo Insufficient Entropy vulnerbaility

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1900
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1900

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1900

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2024-01-10T15:48:07.636Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:19:44.073Z

Reserved: 2023-12-07T15:58:13.801Z

Link: CVE-2023-49599

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:19:44.073Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-10T16:15:48.257

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:16:09.570

Link: CVE-2023-49599

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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