CVE-2005-3912: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180, with syslog logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form, which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only
• Webmin Webmin: from 1.100, before 1.180 (fixed in 1.180); from 1.200, before 1.250 (fixed in 1.250)

Published 2005-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.