Vulnerability · Published Apr 23, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-31539
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.wowza.com/products/streaming-engine x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.gruppotim.it/redteam x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-8-01-release-notes#breaking x_refsource_MISC