Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3042

Title: Webmin/Usermin authentication bypass via spoofed session ID

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3042.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 22, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3042: 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).

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

webmin 1

usermin 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-09/0257.html http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2340940493/index.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16858 http://secunia.com/advisories/17282 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/17 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-17.xml http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/SNSadvisory_e/83_e.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:176 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_24_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/19575 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14889 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1791 http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.230.html http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.160.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-09/0257.html http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2340940493/index.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16858 http://secunia.com/advisories/17282 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/17 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-17.xml http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/SNSadvisory_e/83_e.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:176 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_24_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/19575 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14889 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1791 http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.230.html http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.160.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3042 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 22, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.