CVE-2003-0101
highpriority · attend · 55EPSS 0.155 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-22275Webmin 0.9x / Usermin 0.9x/1.0 - Access Session ID Spoofingfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (19)
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- engardelinux guardian digital webtool= 1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:engardelinux:guardian_digital_webtool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (2)
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sources
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references (32)
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- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q1/0063.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/engarde/2003-q1/0008.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610245624895&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610300325629&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610336226274&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8115enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8163enisa_euvd
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