Back
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…
High10.0EPSS 15.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.5% · top 3.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- DSA-319 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2886.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20030224 GLSA: usermin (200302-14) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- N-058 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 8163 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2003:025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- HPSBUX0303-250 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 8115 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1006160 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20030224 [SNS Advisory No.62] Webmin/Usermin Session ID Spoofing Vulnerability "Episode 2" (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ESA-20030225-006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_ENGARDEx_transferred
- http://marc.info/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20030224 Webmin 1.050 - 1.060 remote exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.lac.co.jp/security/english/snsadv_e/62_e.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- webmin-usermin-root-access(11390) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 6915 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .