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CVE-2005-0488

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

4 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive environment variables via the NEW-ENVIRON option with a SEND ENV_USERVAR command..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:telnet_client:5.1.2600.2180:*:*:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -