PT-2012-4413

CVE-2012-2983

Published

2012-09-11

Updated

2013-05-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.0

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Webmin versions 1.590 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files without proper authorization. This is due to a lack of authorization check in the file/edit html.cgi component, which permits access to a file's unedited contents via the file field.

Recommendations For versions 1.590 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.590 to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Jcameron

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

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