CVE-2005-0427

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The ebuild of Webmin before 1.170-r3 on Gentoo Linux includes the encrypted root password in the miniserv.users file when building a tbz2 of the webmin package, which allows remote attackers to obtain and possibly crack the encrypted password.

The ebuild of Webmin before 1.170-r3 on Gentoo Linux includes the encrypted root password in the miniserv.users file when building a tbz2 of the webmin package, which allows remote attackers to obtain and possibly crack the encrypted password.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Gentoo webmin

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Gentoo webmin 1.140.ebuild

1.140

Gentoo webmin 1.150.ebuild

1.150

Gentoo webmin 1.160.ebuild

1.160

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200502-12

Patch, Vendor Advisory

webmin-encrypted-password(19315)

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