National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2982

Overview

file/show.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via an invalid character in a pathname, as demonstrated by a | (pipe) character.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#788478

Name: VU#788478

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/1f1411fe7404ec3ac03e803cfa7e01515e71a213

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/1f1411fe7404ec3ac03e803cfa7e01515e71a213

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027507

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027507

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-001.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-001.pdf

External Source: MISC

Name: http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html

Hyperlink:http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html