CVE-2017-15645

Webmin vulnerability

CVSS

8.8

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

CSRF exists in Webmin 1.850. By sending a GET request to at/create_job.cgi containing dir=/&cmd= in the URI, an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected vendor

Webmin

Affected product

Webmin

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Published

2017-10-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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