VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2005-0488
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.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 17.1%
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 17.1%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 17.12% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/telnet client · mit/kerberos 5 · sun/sunos
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilitiesVendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014203
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-504.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13940
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.htmlUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11373
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1139
- http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilitiesVendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014203
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.