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Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cleartext Storage Of Sensitive Information

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2016-5342
Release Date
19 July 2016
Vendor
Wowza Media Systems, LLC. - https://www.wowza.com
Affected Version
4.5.0 (build 18676)
CVE
N/A
Tested On
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN), Winstone Servlet Engine v1.0.5, Servlet/2.5 (Winstone/1.0.5)
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.

Description

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.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
03.07.2016Vulnerability discovered.
09.07.2016Contact with the vendor.
18.07.2016No response from the vendor.
19.07.2016Public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
19.07.2016Initial release
22.07.2016Added reference [1] and [2]
26.07.2016Added reference [3]