Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
High

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-49589

An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the userRecoverPass.php recoverPass generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to an arbitrary user password recovery. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2023-49589
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
8 Nov 2026, 03:44 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-49589

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jan 2024, 15:48 UTC

An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the userRecoverPass.php recoverPass generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to an arbitrary user password recovery. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2023-49589
Complete source record
{
  "id": "96002f1c8c5caf5004d3b0ae4045840449d9c3eef3d0ab09ab1917ad3be9f774",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-49589",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-49589",
    "summary": "An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the userRecoverPass.php recoverPass generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed957fb. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to an arbitrary user password recovery. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-49589",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-49589",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-49589"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wwbn/avideo",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "15fed957fb"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "15fed957fb"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:15fed957fb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "15fed957fb"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "15fed957fb"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "15fed957fb"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-49589.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:53.308875569Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1896",
        "https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1896",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49589.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49589"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-640"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "talos",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "dev master commit 15fed957fb"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "dev master commit 15fed957fb"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49589.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-49589",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 522313,
  "published_at": "2024-01-10T15:48:09.137+00:00"
}