Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-49599

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 10 January 2024

Published
10 January 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-49599 is a critical-severity Insufficient Entropy (CWE-331) vulnerability in Wwbn Avideo. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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force the salt offline, leading to forging a legitimate password recovery code for the admin user.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

wwbn
avideo
15fed957fb

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-331

Approved key-establishment methods mandate sufficient entropy during key generation, eliminating entropy-starved keys.

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