Is CVE-2023-49599 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2023-49599 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2023-49599?

CVE-2023-49599 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2023-49599?

CVE-2023-49599 has an EPSS score of 0.96% (57th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix or mitigate CVE-2023-49599?

No published fix for CVE-2023-49599 has been found yet. Check the linked vendor advisories for guidance as it becomes available.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-49599

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-331

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.96%probability of exploitation in 30 days

57thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 57% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

talosintelligence.com

Other references1

talosintelligence.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-04.