software/apt-lib.pl in Webmin before 1.997 lacks HTML escaping for a UI command.
CVE-2022-36446
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-07-26. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 96%
- Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
An upstream fix is merged but not yet released — mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation) until the release ships, then apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 82EG Risk 82/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation96% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high until it ships, then apply the release. - EPSS PROB
- 96%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 96% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high until it ships, then apply the release.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
July 25, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026commit 13f7bf9621a8 (webmin/webmin)
Fix landed in webmin/webmin commit 13f7bf9621a8 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/13f7bf9621a82d93f1e9dbd838d1e22020221bdePacket Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168049/Webmin-Package-Updates-Command-Injection.htmlPacket Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167894/Webmin-1.996-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlWebmin 1.996 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated) - Linux webapps Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50998Comparing 1.996...1.997 · webmin/webmin · GitHub
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/compare/1.996...1.997Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 36× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 16 repeat rows among the latest 97 are merged into the row they repeat.
- 2026-10-23 11:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 13:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 17:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-19 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-18 21:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 08:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 23:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 23:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-17 01:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 01:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 01:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 01:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 20:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 20:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 16:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-12 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 23:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-07-30 01:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-07-23 02:12 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-17 00:08 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-06-15 17:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 96% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-14 23:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-11 19:25 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-06-10 13:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-08 14:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-05-25 18:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-25 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3q8j-9w3h-v6p5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-05-24 16:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(5 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 2 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. The fix is not yet in a release, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until it ships.
- Metasploitexploit/linux/http/webmin_package_updates_rce✓ verifiedPublished Aug 9, 2022
Webmin Package Updates RCE
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2022/CVE-2022-36446.yamlPublished Feb 10, 2023
Webmin <1.997 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCemirpolatt/CVE-2022-36446Published Sep 9, 2022
CVE-2022-36446 - Webmin 1.996 Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCp0dalirius/CVE-2022-36446-Webmin-Software-Package-Updates-RCEPublished Aug 11, 2022
A Python script to exploit CVE-2022-36446 Software Package Updates RCE (Authenticated) on Webmin < 1.997.
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-50998Published Aug 1, 2022
Webmin 1.996 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated)
Open source ↗
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