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CVE-2012-2983

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2983 is an authorization bypass vulnerability in Webmin 1.590 and earlier, specifically within the file/edit_html.cgi component, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required for exploitation, leading to potential information disclosure. While not actively exploited in the wild or on CISA's KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for this vulnerability, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.590CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.140CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.140:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.150CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.150:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.160CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.160:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.170CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.170:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Webmin edit_html.cgi file Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Access · Sep 6, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2046 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

americaninfosec.com / research/index.html
github.com / webmin/webmin/commit/4cd7bad70e23e4e19be8ccf7b9f245445b2b3b80
americaninfosec.com / research/dossiers/AISG-12-002.pdf
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/788478
PatchUS Government Resource
securitytracker.com / id
xerox.com / download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf