Insufficient Entropy in Salt Generation Leads to Privilege Escalation in WWBN AVideo

Insufficient Entropy in Salt Generation Leads to Privilege Escalation in WWBN AVideo

CVE-2023-49599 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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