Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cleartext Sensitive Information Storage
Posted on 20 July 2016
i>>? Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cleartext Storage Of Sensitive Information Vendor: Wowza Media Systems, LLC. Product web page: https://www.wowza.com Affected version: 4.5.0 (build 18676) Summary: Wowza Streaming Engine is robust, customizable, and scalable server software that powers reliable video and audio streaming to any device. Learn the benefits of using Wowza Streaming Engine to deliver high-quality live and on-demand video content to any device. Desc: The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. When the file is modified it is automatically applied into the application with newly created user account. Wowza stores sensitive information such as username and password in cleartext in admin.password file, which is readable by local users. Tested on: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN) Winstone Servlet Engine v1.0.5 Servlet/2.5 (Winstone/1.0.5) Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic @zeroscience Advisory ID: ZSL-2016-5342 Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5342.php 03.07.2016 -- C:>type "C:Program Files (x86)Wowza Media SystemsWowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0confadmin.password" # Admin password file (format [username][space][password][space][group]) # username password group|group admin admin admin beebee pass1234 admin|advUser test 123123 admin|advUser
