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CVE-2005-0488 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2005-0488

CVE-2005-0488

UNKNOWN

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

Published Jun 14, 2005

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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.

References

http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilities

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=1-26-57755-1

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829

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.html

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

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0488

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Exploitability

Access Vector

NetworkAV:N

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

PartialC:P

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

NoneA:N

5/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedJun 14, 2005

ModifiedAug 7, 2024