CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0488

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-06-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-06-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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 configurations

• microsoft telnet client 5.1.2600.2180 • mit kerberos 5 1.3.4 • sun sunos 5.9

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-213 Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies weakness

References