CVE-2003-0101
miniserv.pl in (1) Webmin before 1.070 and (2) Usermin before 1.000 does not properly handle metacharacters such as line feeds and carriage returns (CRLF) in Base-64 encoded strings during Basic authentication, which allows remote attackers to spoof a…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.5%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
miniserv.pl in (1) Webmin before 1.070 and (2) Usermin before 1.000 does not properly handle metacharacters such as line feeds and carriage returns (CRLF) in Base-64 encoded strings during Basic authentication, which allows remote attackers to spoof a session ID and gain root privileges.
- CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 15.47% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 20 February 2003
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- engardelinux/guardian digital webtool · usermin/usermin · webmin/webmin
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 15.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030602-01-I
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q1/0063.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/engarde/2003-q1/0008.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610245624895&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610300325629&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610336226274&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8115
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8163
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-058.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-319
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11390.phpVendor Advisory
- http://www.lac.co.jp/security/english/snsadv_e/62_e.html
- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2886.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:025
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6915
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006160
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030602-01-I
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q1/0063.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/engarde/2003-q1/0008.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610245624895&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610300325629&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610336226274&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8115
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8163
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-058.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-319
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11390.phpVendor Advisory
- http://www.lac.co.jp/security/english/snsadv_e/62_e.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.