CVE-2005-0427
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.20% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- gentoo/webmin
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.