CVE-2005-3912

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 7.5

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-11-30 CVE Reserved
2005-11-30 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (17)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/17817	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17878	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17942	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18101	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22556	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418093/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2660	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-November/002685.html	2019-04-03
http://secunia.com/advisories/17749	2019-04-03
http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html	2019-04-03

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199	2019-04-03
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-02.xml	2019-04-03
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:223	2019-04-03
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html	2019-04-03
http://www.webmin.com/changes-1.250.html	2019-04-03
http://www.webmin.com/security.html	2019-04-03
http://www.webmin.com/uchanges-1.180.html	2019-04-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Webmin Search vendor "Webmin"		Webmin Search vendor "Webmin" for product "Webmin"				>= 1.100 < 1.180 Search vendor "Webmin" for product "Webmin" and version " >= 1.100 < 1.180"		-		Affected
Webmin Search vendor "Webmin"		Webmin Search vendor "Webmin" for product "Webmin"				>= 1.200 < 1.250 Search vendor "Webmin" for product "Webmin" and version " >= 1.200 < 1.250"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				3.1 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "3.1"		-		Affected