Cross-site request forgery in Webmin - CVE-2021-31760
Published: April 26, 2021 / Updated: April 29, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU52555
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31760
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin within the running process feature. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
Affected software
Webmin
How to mitigate CVE-2021-31760
Install update from vendor's website.
Webmin - update to 1.974
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #5324 - CVE-2021-31760 (Exploiting a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack to get a Remote Command Execution (RCE) through the Webmin's running process feature) (April 28, 2021)
- Exploit #5319 - CVE-2021-31760 (Exploiting a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack to get a Remote Command Execution (RCE) through the Webmin's running process feature) (April 26, 2021)