CVE-2005-0427

Summary

CVECVE-2005-0427
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-11 01:32:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.140 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.150 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.160 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.170 r1 All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.170 r2 All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.140 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.150 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.160 All All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.170 r1 All All
Application Gentoo Webmin 1.170 r2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Webmin: Information leak in Gentoo binary package GENTOO www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Bug 77731 - app-admin/webmin binary package contains sensitive info MISC bugs.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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