VDB
GHSA-g7x5-gg6r-rhm7
GHSA-g7x5-gg6r-rhm7
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
file/edit_html.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier does not perform an authorization check before showing a file's unedited contents, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the file field.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
8.699999809265137
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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The same record, from the CLI:
vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-g7x5-gg6r-rhm7
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-g7x5-gg6r-rhm7
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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
"https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-g7x5-gg6r-rhm7/fixes/registry"
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References
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80 url
- http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf url
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478 url
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2983 advisory
- http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027507 url