CVE-2023-49599
CVSS 3.1 Score 9.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Summary
CVE-2023-49599 is a newly identified vulnerability affecting the salt generation functionality in the WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. This issue results in insufficient entropy, allowing a malicious actor to craft a series of HTTP requests that can lead to privilege escalation. By gathering system information through HTTP requests and offline brute force attacks, an attacker can forge a legitimate password recovery code for the admin user. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to the security of affected systems and requires immediate attention and remediation.
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