PT-2002-2396 · Webmin · Webmin

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2002-1672

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Webmin version 0.92

Description The issue allows local users to potentially hijack the root user's session by reading the root user's cookie-based authentication credentials due to insecure permissions on the /var/webmin directory.

Recommendations For Webmin version 0.92, consider changing the permissions of the /var/webmin directory to prevent world readability as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1672

Affected Products

Webmin

References · 5

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4328 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1672 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8595 · Note
• http://webmin.com/changes.html · Note
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263181 · Note