Description
The ebuild of Webmin before 1.170-r3 on Gentoo Linux includes the encrypted root password in the miniserv.users file when building a tbz2 of the webmin package, which allows remote attackers to obtain and possibly crack the encrypted password.
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77731
- GLSA-200502-12 vendor-advisory
- webmin-encrypted-password(19315) vdb-entry