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CVE-2005-0427

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.160:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.150:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.140:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.170:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:webmin:1.170:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -