CVE-2005-0427: Gentoo Webmin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Gentoo Webmin: version 1.140 only; version 1.150 only; version 1.160 only; version 1.170 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.