CVE-2026-56021

🔶 medium

Summary

Webmin allows unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of any file ending in .conf within module directories, due to a bypassable regex pattern.

CVSS Score

5.3

Medium

EPSS Score

0.5

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-06-18

First Seen: 2026-06-25

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 19.0% of all 365,987 vulnerabilities in our database.

#296,602

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 24, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Adem El Adeb, vulone.com/vul1.com

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-08-11

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-185 CWE-777

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
webmin	webmin	Affected	< 1.290

🔗 References 4

https://github.com/webmin/webmin/releases/tag/2.641

Product Release Notes

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/devel...

VDB Entry

https://webmin.com/security/#webmin-prior-to-2641

Vendor Advisory

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-56021

VDB Entry

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