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CVE-2016-1888

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The telnetd service in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 allows remote attackers to inject arguments to login and bypass authentication via vectors involving a "sequence of memory allocation failures."

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.0

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc

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