Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-1196. PoCs published by A. Ramos.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a directory traversal vulnerability in Webmin, allowing an attacker to access arbitrary files on the system, including sensitive files like /etc/shadow. The vulnerability arises from inadequate filtering of '../' sequences in web requests.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in edit_action.cgi of Webmin Directory 0.91 allows attackers to gain privileges via a '..' (dot dot) in the argument.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a directory traversal vulnerability in Webmin, allowing an attacker to access arbitrary files on the system, including sensitive files like /etc/shadow. The vulnerability arises from inadequate filtering of '../' sequences in web requests.