CVE-2019-7656

[Suggested Description]
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A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine allows any
unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root.
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[Vulnerability Type]
Privilege Escalation
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[Vendor of Product]
Wowza Media Systems LLC
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[Affected Product Code Base]
Wowza Streaming Engine - Version 4.8.0 and earlier, Issue fixed in 4.8.5
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[Affected Component]
Wowza Streaming Engine
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[Attack Type]
Local
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[Impact Code Execution]
true
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[Impact Denial of Service]
false
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[Attack Vector]
The installer sets relaxed permissions on core program files by default. By
injecting a malicious payload in one of those files, it will run with same
privileges as the Wowza server, root.
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[Has the vendor confirmed or acknowledged the vulnerability?]
true