CRLF injection in Webmin - CVE-2025-2774
Published: May 2, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU108120
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-2774
CWE-ID: CWE-93
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of attacker-supplied data when handling CGI requests. A remote authenticated user can pass specially crafted data to the application containing CR-LF characters and escalate privileges on the system.
Affected software
Webmin
How to mitigate CVE-2025-2774
Install updates from vendor's website.
Webmin - update to 2.302