A vulnerability has been identified in Webmin and Usermin, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to an input validation error when handling a malformed URL, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to access and read the contents of arbitrary files on an affected system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kenny Chen
ChangeLog
2006-06-30 : Initial release
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