CVE-2005-0427

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

gentoo Webmin: 1.140, 1.150, 1.160, 1.170-r1, 1.170-r2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315

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