CVE-2023-49599 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2023-49599

An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Discovered by Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

AVideo
Vulnerable Versions:
dev master commit 15fed957fb

Timeline

Official Publish: January 10th, 2024
Last Modified: November 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-331

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.