CVE-2002-1672: Webmin

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Webmin 0.92, when installed from an RPM, creates /var/webmin with insecure permissions (world readable), which could allow local users to read the root user's cookie-based authentication credentials and possibly hijack the root user's session using the credentials.

Affected products

• Webmin Webmin: version 0.92 only; version 0.92.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.