Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Local Privilege Escalation via nssm_x64.exe

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• wowza streaming engine4.5.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Wowza Media Systems, LLC. Wowza Streaming Engine

  • 4.5.0affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-19365The REST API in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.4.01 allows traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file via a remote, specifical
  43Plan
• CVE-2018-7047An issue was discovered in the MBeans Server in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1.
  40Plan
• CVE-2024-52052Stream Target Remote Code Execution in Wowza Streaming Engine
  37Monitor
• CVE-2020-9004A remote authenticated authorization-bypass vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any read-only user to issue req
  36Monitor
• CVE-2016-20034Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit
  34Monitor
• CVE-2024-52053Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Wowza Streaming Engine
  34Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.