CVE-2005-0427

critical

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2017-07-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical