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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 17.12% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-06-14 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:13Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-02-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7d8dbf68ce3a95f8732d6929da5fb311bf9ed9858bc4c2890ec0a66f70662ac0
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2006-08-01http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:504http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-504.html
- securitytracker.com1014203http://securitytracker.com/id?1014203
- www.securityfocus.com13940http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13940
- sunsolve.sun.com57755http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3101http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
- secunia.com21253http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#800829http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829
- www.securityfocus.com19289http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:562http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.html
- www.us-cert.govTA06-214Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11373https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11373
- sunsolve.sun.com101665http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1139https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1139
- idefense.com20050614 Multiple Vendor Telnet Client Information Disclosure Vulnerabilityhttp://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilities
- secunia.com17135http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
- sunsolve.sun.com57761http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1
- sunsolve.sun.com101671http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2005:016http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- krb5 Fixed in 1.8.3+dfsg-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- krb5 Fixed in 1.8.3+dfsg-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- krb5 Fixed in 1.8.3+dfsg-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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