Vulnerability · Published May 15, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-30708
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.8% (higher than 90% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)3.8%top 9.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Webmin through 1.991, when the Authentic theme is used, allows remote code execution when a user has been manually created (i.e., not created in Virtualmin or Cloudmin). This occurs because settings-editor_write.cgi does not properly restrict the file parameter.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/issues/1635 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1483029790 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/releases x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/webmin/authentic-theme/releases x_refsource_MISC
- https://webmin.com/changes.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/6a2334bf8b27d55c7edf0b2825cd14f3f8a69d4d x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin/blob/main/exploit.py x_refsource_MISC