CVE-2019-12840
CVE-2019-12840
Vexday Risk Score
60Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (8 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS —EPSS 77.8%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —
Lifecycle
16 May 2019Metasploit module available
15 Jun 2019Published on NVD
05 Nov 2019Public PoC
Weaponization speed
143 daysto first PoC
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
In Webmin through 1.910, any user authorized to the "Package Updates" module can execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via the data parameter to update.cgi.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 9
githubgithub.com/KrE80r/webmin_cve-2019-12840_poc★ 8githubgithub.com/bkaraceylan/CVE-2019-12840_POC★ 4githubgithub.com/zAbuQasem/CVE-2019-12840★ 0githubgithub.com/WizzzStark/CVE-2019-12840.py★ 0githubgithub.com/Pol-Ruiz/PoC-CVE-2019-12840★ 0githubgithub.com/anasbousselham/webminscan★ 0githubgithub.com/fenix0499/CVE-2019-12840-NodeJs-Exploit★ 0cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/46984unverifiedcve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/153372/Webmin-1.910-Remote-Command-Execution.htmlunverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.