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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…
High10.0EPSS 98.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 98.1% · top 0.1% 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: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (19)
- 20070212 Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0560 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- solaris-telnet-authentication-bypass(32434) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#881872 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2202 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/02/trivial-remote-solaris-0day-disable.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070214 Solaris telnet vuln solutions digest and network risks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 24120 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070211 "0day was the case that they gave me" (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 1017625 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2220 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 102802 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 31881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 22512 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20070212 Re: [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070214 RE: [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many onyour network? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070213 Re: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on yournetwork? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- TA07-059A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20070212 Re: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on yournetwork? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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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