Vulnerability CVE-2005-0427
Published: 2005-05-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gentoo -> Webmin 

 References:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19315
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731
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