VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0488

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability17.12%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-06-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV: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.

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