Medium
Security advisory
custom/run.cgi in Webmin before 1.870 allows remote authenticated administrators to conduct XSS attacks via the description field in the custom command functionality.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17089
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
custom/run.cgi in Webmin before 1.870 allows remote authenticated administrators to conduct XSS attacks via the description field in the custom command functionality.
osv:CVE-2017-17089
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2017-12-30T17:29:00.263+00:00"
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