CVE-2017-15646

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3