Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cleartext Sensitive Information Storage

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Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cleartext Storage Of Sensitive Information  
  
  
Vendor: Wowza Media Systems, LLC.  
Product web page: https://www.wowza.com  
Affected version: 4.5.0 (build 18676)  
  
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.  
  
Desc: The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within  
a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. When the  
file is modified it is automatically applied into the application with  
newly created user account. Wowza stores sensitive information such as  
username and password in cleartext in admin.password file, which is readable  
by local users.  
  
Tested on: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN)  
Winstone Servlet Engine v1.0.5  
Servlet/2.5 (Winstone/1.0.5)  
  
  
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic  
@zeroscience  
  
  
Advisory ID: ZSL-2016-5342  
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5342.php  
  
  
03.07.2016  
  
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C:\>type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wowza Media Systems\Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0\conf\admin.password"  
# Admin password file (format [username][space][password][space][group])  
# username password group|group  
admin admin admin  
beebee pass1234 admin|advUser  
test 123123 admin|advUser  
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