Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 CSRF via user edit endpoint

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-2016-20033Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Local Privilege Escalation via nssm_x64.exe
  34Monitor

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

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

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

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

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