Title: Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 CSRF Add Advanced Admin Exploit
Advisory ID: ZSL-2016-5341
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting
Risk: (3/5)
Release Date: 19.07.2016

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 interface allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to perform certain actions with administrative privileges if a logged-in user visits a malicious web site.

Vendor

Wowza Media Systems, LLC. - https://www.wowza.com

Affected Version

4.5.0 (build 18676)

Tested On

Winstone Servlet Engine v1.0.5
Servlet/2.5 (Winstone/1.0.5)

Vendor Status

[03.07.2016] Vulnerability discovered.
[09.07.2016] Contact with the vendor.
[18.07.2016] No response from the vendor.
[19.07.2016] Public security advisory released.

PoC

wowza_csrf.txt

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>

References

[1] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40134/
[2] https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137973
[3] https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2016070153
[4] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115115

Changelog

[19.07.2016] - Initial release
[22.07.2016] - Added reference [1], [2] and [3]
[26.07.2016] - Added reference [4]

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: http://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: lab@zeroscience.mk