QID 150563

Date Published: 2022-08-30

QID 150563: Webmin Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2022-36446)

Webmin is a powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems.

In affected versions of Webmin, software/apt-lib.pl before version 1.997 lacks HTML escaping for a UI command leading to Command Injection Vulnerability.

Affected versions:
Webmin versions prior to 1.997

QID Detection Logic (Unauthenticated) :
This QID sends a HTTP GET request to the target application and determines vulnerable version of Webmin running based on the HTTP server header.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to latest version of Webmin to remediate this vulnerability.

Vendor References

Webmin - github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/13f7bf9621a82d93f1e9dbd838d1e22020221bde

CVEs related to QID 150563

CVE-2022-36446 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
Webmin Downloads			www.webmin.com/download.html

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