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CVE-2005-3912

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180, with syslog logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form, which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• Webmin: from 1.100 before 1.180; from 1.200 before 1.250 — fixed in 1.180, 1.250

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Webmin 1.180, 1.250. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-November/002685.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17749
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17817
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17878
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17942
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18101
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22556
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199
• http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-02.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:223
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html

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