SB2012092401 - Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Webmin
Published: September 24, 2012
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012092401
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Multiple XSS vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient sanitization of user-input passed via unspecified parameters and via HTTP Referer header. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user’s browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.