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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2016-20034

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit

Description

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated read-only users to elevate privileges to administrator by manipulating POST parameters. Attackers can send POST requests to the user edit endpoint with accessLevel set to 'admin' and advUser parameters set to 'true' and 'on' to gain administrative access.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Wowza Media Systems, LLC. Wowza Streaming Engine

  • 4.5.0affected

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