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Webmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20777
Release Date: 2006-06-23
Last Update: 2006-06-30
Popularity: 8,960 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Webmin 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Keigo Yamazaki has reported a vulnerability Webmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error within the handling of URL requests containing the backslash "\" character. 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.

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