CVE-2023-49599 WWBN AVideo Insufficient Entropy vulnerbaility

What is CVE-2023-49599?

CVE-2023-49599 is a critical vulnerability in Wwbn Avideo, published on 10 Jan 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted series of HTTP requests can lead to privilege escalation. An attacker can gather system information via HTTP requests and brute force the salt offline, leading to forging a legitimate password recovery code for the admin user.

Weakness: CWE-331

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-49599?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including wwbn/avideo. It affects 1 product.

Products include Wwbn Avideo.

How do I fix CVE-2023-49599?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-49599 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-49599 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-49599 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Wwbn Avideo

• CVE-2026-40911 WWBN AVideo YPTSocket WebSocket Broadcast Relay Leads to Unauthenticated Cross-User JavaScript Execution via Client-Side eval() Sinks Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-33478 AVideo Multi-Chain Attack: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Clone Key Disclosure, Database Dump, and Command Injection Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-30534 Command injection in AVideo Critical 9.9
• CVE-2022-30547 Path traversal in AVideo Critical 9.9
• CVE-2022-32572 Command injection in AVideo Critical 9.9

All Wwbn Avideo vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-wqcc-qf63-c2x4.