CVE-2012-4893

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% 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-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in file/show.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of privileged users for requests that (1) read files or execute (2) tar, (3) zip, or (4) gzip commands, a different issue than CVE-2012-2982.

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-12-001.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478
http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html
http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-001.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478

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