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HistoryJun 23, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

[SA20777] Webmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

2006-06-2300:00:00
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TITLE:
Webmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20777

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20777/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Webmin 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1115/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Webmin, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified input validation
error. This can be exploited to gain access to arbitrary files on a
Windows system via directory traversal attacks.

Successful exploitation requires that Webmin is used on the Windows
platform.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.270 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.280.
http://www.webmin.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Keigo Yamazaki of Little eArth Corporation.


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