{"id":"CVE-2005-0427","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-0427","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:44.589Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2005-05-02T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:11:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["gentoo/webmin"],"epss":{"score":0.02204,"percentile":0.82427,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0427","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}