CVE-2021-31762

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Webmin 1.973 is affected by Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to create a privileged user through Webmin's add users feature, and then get a reverse shell through Webmin's running process feature.

Affected products

Webmin: 1.973

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163492/Webmin-1.973-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
https://github.com/Mesh3l911/CVE-2021-31762
https://github.com/electronicbots/CVE-2021-31762
https://github.com/webmin/webmin
https://youtu.be/qCvEXwyaF5U
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163492/Webmin-1.973-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
https://github.com/Mesh3l911/CVE-2021-31762
https://github.com/electronicbots/CVE-2021-31762
https://github.com/webmin/webmin
https://youtu.be/qCvEXwyaF5U

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