CVE-2012-2983 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027507 http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80