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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2007-0882

Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to…

HIGH 10.0EPSS 98.0%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 98.0%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to log into certain accounts, as demonstrated by the bin account.

CVSS 2.0
10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
98.01% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-88
Affected
oracle/solaris · sun/sunos
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.