CVE-2003-0101 describes a critical vulnerability in Webmin before version 1.070 and Usermin before version 1.000, affecting various Engardelinux and Guardian Digital Webtool products. The flaw stems from improper handling of metacharacters (CRLF) in Base-64 encoded strings during Basic authentication. This allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to spoof session IDs and gain root privileges, as indicated by its CVSS score of 10.0. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-22275) exists, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:engardelinux:guardian_digital_webtool:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.