CVE Catalog

CVE-2003-0101

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

miniserv.pl in Webmin before 1.070 and 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, allowing remote attackers to spoof a session ID and gain root privileges.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to take control of the system, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Webmin to version 1.070 or later and Usermin to version 1.000 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS