CVE-2017-15646

medium

Description

Webmin before 1.860 has XSS with resultant remote code execution. Under the 'Others/File Manager' menu, there is a 'Download from remote URL' option to download a file from a remote server. After setting up a malicious server, one can wait for a file download request and then send an XSS payload that will lead to Remote Code Execution, as demonstrated by an OS command in the value attribute of a name='cmd' input element.

References

https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/0c58892732ee7610a7abba5507614366d382c9c9

http://www.webmin.com/security.html

http://www.webmin.com/changes.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-19

Updated: 2017-11-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium