Medium severity · published Jul 4, 2017
CVE-2017-9313
Multiple Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Webmin before 1.850 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sec parameter to view_man.cgi, the…
6.1
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Multiple Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Webmin before 1.850 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sec parameter to view_man.cgi, the referers parameter to change_referers.cgi, or the name parameter to save_user.cgi. NOTE: these issues were not fixed in 1.840.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WE
Webmin · Webmin
through 1.840 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9313
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9313
Exploit
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Jul/3
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99373
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038814
Release Notes
http://www.webmin.com/changes.html
Patch
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/a330e913ee099cb9c586ce1b9267647fc566c1ab
Patch
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/c2d4a90639afb2403979aa91ba75cb332ae16d1b
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