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

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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 Feb 15, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.20%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.20% 0.02204

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02204

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.20% (0.02204)	81.91th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.20% (0.02204)	80.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.33% (0.00331)	53.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.41% (0.00414)	74.84th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 15, 2024	0.41% (0.00414)	73.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 23, 2024	0.41% (0.00414)	71.35th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.52% (0.00517)	73.14th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19315		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 15, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 15, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0427

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0427

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-0427