CVE-2005-0488 Information disclosure in n/a
Remote malicious Telnet servers can read sensitive environment variables from BSD-based clients via the NEW-ENVIRON option.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-0488?
CVE-2005-0488 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5, published on 14 Jun 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0488?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Microsoft Telnet Client, Mit Kerberos 5, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2005-0488?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2005-0488 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0488 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0488, GHSA-r4w9-9whg-94xw.