CVE-2018-7048 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wowza Streaming Engine versions prior to 4.7.1, where a specially crafted HTTP request can lead to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability carries a high CVSSv3 score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and without user interaction, resulting in a complete loss of availability. While no public exploits or Metasploit modules are known, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.