CVE-2012-4893

Summary

CVECVE-2012-4893
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-09-11 19:55:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-352 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.140 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.150 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.160 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.170 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.180 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.200 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.210 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.220 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.230 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.240 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.260 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.270 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.280 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.290 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.300 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.310 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.320 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.330 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.340 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.370 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.380 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.390 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.400 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.410 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.420 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.430 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.440 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.450 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.470 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.480 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.500 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.510 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.520 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.530 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.550 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.560 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.570 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.580 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
American Information Security Group - Research af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 americaninfosec.com
www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-001.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.americaninfosec.com
Vulnerability Note VU#788478 - Webmin contains input validation vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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