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CVE-2005-0488
Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive…
Medium5.0EPSS 17.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.1% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (19)
- APPLE-SA-2006-08-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:504 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1014203 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 13940 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 57755 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3101 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 21253 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#800829 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 19289 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:562 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- TA06-214A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11373 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 101665 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1139 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20050614 Multiple Vendor Telnet Client Information Disclosure Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 17135 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 57761 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 101671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2005:016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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