VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2000-1184
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.66%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-01-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying an arbitrary large file in the TERMCAP environmental variable, which consumes resources as the server processes the file.