# CVE-2006-3392: Webmin before 1.290 and Usermin before 1.220 calls the simplify\_path function before decoding HTML, which allows remote attackers to read ar

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module, 7 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2006-07-06 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Webmin before 1.290 and Usermin before 1.220 calls the simplify_path function before decoding HTML, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, as demonstrated using "..%01" sequences, which bypass the removal of "../" sequences before bytes such as "%01" are removed from the filename. NOTE: This is a different issue than CVE-2006-3274.

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/21365
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-11.xml
- http://www.webmin.com/changes.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440125/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21105
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18744
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440493/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440466/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999601
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199
- http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000912.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20892
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:125
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2612
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439653/100/0/threaded
- http://www.osvdb.org/26772
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22556
- http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-July/000923.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1997
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2017
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/admin/webmin/file_disclosure.rb
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2006/CVE-2006-3392.yaml
- https://github.com/0xtz/CVE-2006-3392
- https://github.com/Adel-hx0d/CVE-2006-3392
- https://github.com/IvanGlinkin/CVE-2006-3392
- https://github.com/brosck/CVE-2006-3392
- https://github.com/g1vi/CVE-2006-3392
- https://github.com/gb21oc/ExploitWebmin
- https://github.com/kernel-cyber/CVE-2006-3392

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