CVE-1999-1074: Webmin

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Webmin before 0.5 does not restrict the number of invalid passwords that are entered for a valid username, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges via brute force password cracking.

Affected products

• Webmin Webmin: version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.21 only; version 0.22 only; …

Published 1999-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.