Wowza Streaming Engine

Wowza SE 4.5.0 Enginemanager Reflected XSS via appName/vhost/uiAppType
CVE-2016-20036 6.1 - Medium - March 15, 2026

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains multiple reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the enginemanager interface where input passed through various parameters is not properly sanitized before being returned to users. Attackers can inject malicious script code through parameters like appName, vhost, uiAppType, and wowzaCloudDestinationType in multiple endpoints to execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript in a user's browser session.

XSS

CSRF in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Admin Edit Endpoint Escalates Privileges
CVE-2016-20035 5.3 - Medium - March 15, 2026

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform administrative actions by crafting malicious web pages. Attackers can trick logged-in administrators into visiting a malicious site that submits POST requests to the user edit endpoint to create new admin accounts with arbitrary credentials.

Session Riding

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via POST params
CVE-2016-20034 8.8 - High - March 15, 2026

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.

Session Riding

Wowza Stream Engine 4.5.0 Priv Esc via nssm_x64.exe Replace
CVE-2016-20033 7.8 - High - March 15, 2026

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users to escalate privileges by replacing executable files due to improper file permissions granting full access to the Everyone group. Attackers can replace the nssm_x64.exe binary in the manager and engine service directories with malicious executables to execute code with LocalSystem privileges when services restart.

Insecure Direct Object Reference / IDOR

Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-52052 7.2 - High - November 21, 2024

Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 permits an authenticated Streaming Engine Manager administrator to define a custom application property and poison a stream target for high-privilege remote code execution.

Stored XSS Vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Component
CVE-2024-52053 9.6 - Critical - November 21, 2024

Stored Cross-Site Scripting in the Manager component of Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject client-side JavaScript into the web dashboard to automatically hijack admin accounts.

Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2024-52054 2.7 - Low - November 21, 2024

Path Traversal in the Manager component of Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 allows an administrator user to create an XML definition file anywhere on the file system.

Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2024-52055 4.9 - Medium - November 21, 2024

Path Traversal in the Manager component of Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 allows an administrator user to read any file on the file system if the target directory contains an XML definition file.

Wowza Streaming Engine Manager Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2024-52056 6.5 - Medium - November 21, 2024

Path Traversal in the Manager component of Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 allows an administrator user to delete any directory on the file system if the target directory contains an XML definition file.

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.11+5
CVE-2021-35491 8.1 - High - October 05, 2021

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.11+5 allows a remote attacker to delete a user account via the /enginemanager/server/user/delete.htm userName parameter. The application does not implement a CSRF token for the GET request. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine release 4.8.14.

Session Riding

Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.11+5 could
CVE-2021-35492 6.5 - Medium - October 05, 2021

Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.11+5 could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to exhaust filesystem resources via the /enginemanager/server/vhost/historical.jsdata vhost parameter. This is due to the insufficient management of available filesystem resources. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability through the Virtual Host Monitoring section by requesting random virtual-host historical data and exhausting available filesystem resources. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause database errors and cause the device to become unresponsive to web-based management. (Manual intervention is required to free filesystem resources and return the application to an operational state.)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.8.01 (in a default installation) has cleartext passwords stored in the conf/admin.password file
CVE-2021-31539 5.5 - Medium - April 23, 2021

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.8.01 (in a default installation) has cleartext passwords stored in the conf/admin.password file. A regular local user is able to read usernames and passwords.

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.5 (in a default installation) has incorrect file permissions of configuration files in the conf/ directory
CVE-2021-31540 7.1 - High - April 23, 2021

Wowza Streaming Engine through 4.8.5 (in a default installation) has incorrect file permissions of configuration files in the conf/ directory. A regular local user is able to read and write to all the configuration files, e.g., modify the application server configuration.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.5 has Insecure Permissions which may
CVE-2019-19455 - August 03, 2020

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.5 has Insecure Permissions which may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges in / usr / local / WowzaStreamingEngine / manager / bin / in the Linux version of the server by writing arbitrary commands in any file and execute them as root. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.5 allows XSS (issue 1 of 2)
CVE-2019-19453 - August 03, 2020

Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.8.5 allows XSS (issue 1 of 2). An authenticated user, with access to the proxy license editing is able to insert a malicious payload that will be triggered in the main page of server settings. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

A Reflected XSS was found in the server selection box inside the login page at: enginemanager/loginfailed.html in Wowza Streaming Engine <= 4.x.x
CVE-2019-19456 - May 18, 2020

A Reflected XSS was found in the server selection box inside the login page at: enginemanager/loginfailed.html in Wowza Streaming Engine <= 4.x.x. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0.

An arbitrary file download was found in the "Download Log" functionality of Wowza Streaming Engine <= 4.x.x
CVE-2019-19454 - May 18, 2020

An arbitrary file download was found in the "Download Log" functionality of Wowza Streaming Engine <= 4.x.x. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0.

A remote authenticated authorization-bypass vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier
CVE-2020-9004 - April 14, 2020

A remote authenticated authorization-bypass vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any read-only user to issue requests to the administration panel in order to change functionality. For example, a read-only user may activate the Java JMX port in unauthenticated mode and execute OS commands under root privileges. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier
CVE-2019-7656 - January 29, 2020

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/* core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files, it will run with the same privileges as the Wowza server, root. For example, /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/tune.sh could be replaced with a Trojan horse. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier from multiple authenticated XSS vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-7655 - January 29, 2020

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier from multiple authenticated XSS vulnerabilities via the (1) customList%5B0%5D.value field in enginemanager/server/serversetup/edit_adv.htm of the Server Setup configuration or the (2) host field in enginemanager/j_spring_security_check of the login form. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier suffers from multiple CSRF vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-7654 - January 29, 2020

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier suffers from multiple CSRF vulnerabilities. For example, an administrator, by following a link, can be tricked into making unwanted changes such as adding another admin user via enginemanager/server/user/edit.htm in the Server->Users component. This issue was resolved in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5.

The REST API in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.4.01
CVE-2018-19365 9.1 - Critical - March 21, 2019

The REST API in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.4.01 allows traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file via a remote, specifically crafted HTTP request.

Directory traversal

In com.wowza.wms.timedtext.http.HTTPProviderCaptionFile in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1, traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file are possible
CVE-2017-16922 5.3 - Medium - March 05, 2018

In com.wowza.wms.timedtext.http.HTTPProviderCaptionFile in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1, traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file are possible via a remote, specifically crafted HTTP request.

Directory traversal

An issue was discovered in the MBeans Server in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1
CVE-2018-7047 - March 01, 2018

An issue was discovered in the MBeans Server in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. The file system may be read and written to via JMX using the default JMX credentials (remote code execution may be possible as well).

An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1
CVE-2018-7049 - March 01, 2018

An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. There is an XSS vulnerability in the HTTP providers (com.wowza.wms.http.HTTPProviderMediaList and com.wowza.wms.http.streammanager.HTTPStreamManager) causing script injection and/or reflection via a crafted HTTP request.

An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1
CVE-2018-7048 - March 01, 2018

An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1. There is a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP request.