CVE-2005-0488

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Telnet Client: 5.1.2600.2180
MIT Kerberos 5: 1.3.4
Sunos: 5.9

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

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