CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-0427
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gentoo webmin 1.140
• gentoo webmin 1.150
• gentoo webmin 1.160
• gentoo webmin 1.170
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com