webmin -- insecure temporary file creation at installation time

The Webmin developers documented a security issue in the release notes for version 1.160: Fixed a security hole in the maketemp.pl script, used to create the /tmp/.webmin directory at install time. If an un-trusted user creates this directory before Webmin is installed, he could create in it a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2001:059)

Recently, Caldera found that when webmin starts a system daemon from the web frontend it does not clear its environment variables. Since these variables contain the authorization of the administrator, any daemon would also get these variables. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Webmin 0.x - 'RPC' Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5591/info In cases where users of Webmin do not have root access on the underlying host, it may be possible to mount privilege escalation attacks on the underlying host. This normally occurs in configurations where multiple Webmin client systems have acce...

CVE-2001-1074

Webmin 0.84 and earlier does not properly clear the HTTPAUTHORIZATION environment variable when the web server is restarted, which makes authentication information available to all CGI programs and allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-1999-1074

Webmin before 0.5 does not restrict the number of invalid passwords that are entered for a valid username, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges via brute force password cracking...

Webmin Doesn't Clean Env (root exploit)

Not sure if this is known, however I know I've seen quite a few people still using webmin 0.84. Webmin doesn't seem to clean the env properly when starting apache probably in other cases as well It leaves the var HTTPAUTHORIZATION set. All you need to do is run it though a mime 64 decode and you...

CVE-2001-1074

Webmin 0.84 and earlier does not properly clear the HTTPAUTHORIZATION environment variable when the web server is restarted, which makes authentication information available to all CGI programs and allows local users to gain privileges...