CVE-2012-2983

Webmin vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

20.5%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Gentoo

Affected product

Webmin

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2012-09-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 20.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Gentoo Webmin is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-2983.
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