CVE-2024-52055 Application Copy Path Traversal in Wowza Streaming Engine

What is CVE-2024-52055?

CVE-2024-52055 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52055?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wowza Streaming Engine.

How do I fix CVE-2024-52055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-52055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine

• CVE-2018-7047 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-52052 Stream Target Remote Code Execution in Wowza Streaming Engine Critical 9.4
• CVE-2018-19365 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2020-9004 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-20034 Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit High 8.7

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-xjf4-fvc9-r77j.