CVE-2012-2983

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

gentoo Webmin: through 1.590; 1.140, 1.150, 1.160, 1.170, 1.180, 1.200 (+32)

References

http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html
http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478
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/788478
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

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