CVE-2001-1074 describes a critical vulnerability in Webmin versions 0.84 and earlier, where the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION environment variable is not properly cleared upon web server restarts. This oversight exposes authentication information to all CGI programs, enabling local users to potentially gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability presents a low-complexity local attack vector (AV:L/AC:L) that can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C). Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has garnered no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webmin:webmin:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webmin:webmin:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webmin:webmin:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.80CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webmin:webmin:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.83CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webmin:webmin:0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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.