VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2012-2983
file/edit_html.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier does not perform an authorization check before showing a file's unedited contents, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the file field.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 20.5%
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.5%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
file/edit_html.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier does not perform an authorization check before showing a file's unedited contents, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the file field.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 20.46% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- gentoo/webmin
- Source
- cret@cert.org
References
- http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html
- http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027507
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80
- http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html
- http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027507
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.