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CVE-2002-0757

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

(1) Webmin 0.96 and (2) Usermin 0.90 with password timeouts enabled allow local and possibly remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges via certain control characters in the authentication information, which can force Webmin or Usermin to accept arbitrary username/session ID combinations.

Affected products

• Usermin: 0.7, 0.8, 0.9
• Webmin: 0.91, 0.92, 0.92.1, 0.93, 0.94, 0.95 (+1)

References

• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271466
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9037.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-033.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4700
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271466
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9037.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-033.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4700

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