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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-3042 json

miniserv.pl in Webmin before 1.230 and Usermin before 1.160, when "full PAM conversations" is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass au…

published 2005-09-22 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3042

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

4.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.