CVE-2012-2982
file/show.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via an invalid character in a…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 61.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
file/show.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via an invalid character in a pathname, as demonstrated by a | (pipe) character.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Webmin /file/show.cgi Remote Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/unix/webapp/webmin_show_cgi_execRank excellentdisclosed 6 Sept 2012
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Webmin 1.580 - '/file/show.cgi' Remote Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21851remote, unixpublished 10 Oct 2012Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 61.9% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www.americaninfosec.com/research/dossiers/AISG-12-001.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- VU#788478 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/1f1411fe7404ec3ac03e803cfa7e01515e71a213 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1027507 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://americaninfosec.com/research/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-2960 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2012-2982)Record last updated .