National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2983
Original release date:09/11/2012
Last revised:09/12/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#788478
Name: VU#788478
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html
