Vulnerability in Webmin
CVE-2005-3912
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.145 (96.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.145 · newest: 0.145 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Webmin
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1
References
- www.webmin.com/security.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17749 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-02.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-November/002685.html (mailing-list, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.webmin.com/changes-1.250.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18101 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2660 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17878 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)