CVE-2002-0757

critical

Description

(1) Webmin 0.96 and (2) Usermin 0.90 with password timeouts enabled allow local and possibly remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges via certain control characters in the authentication information, which can force Webmin or Usermin to accept arbitrary username/session ID combinations.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2002-0749

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4700

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-033.php

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9037.php

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271466

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-08-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00451