cve/2012/CVE-2012-2983.md

### [CVE-2012-2983](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2983)
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### Description

file/edit_html.cgi in Webmin 1.590 and earlier does not perform an authorization check before showing a file's unedited contents, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the file field.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788478

#### Github
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