CVE-2005-3042: Usermin

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

miniserv.pl in Webmin before 1.230 and Usermin before 1.160, when "full PAM conversations" is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by spoofing session IDs via certain metacharacters (line feed or carriage return).

Affected products

• Usermin Usermin: version 1.150 only
• Webmin Webmin: version 1.2.20 only

Published 2005-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.