CVE-2007-0882

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-0882
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-02-12 20:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionArgument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to log into certain accounts, as demonstrated by the bin account.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-88 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Oracle Solaris 10 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.10 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.11 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: "0day was the case that they gave me" af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#881872 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-059A -- Sun Solaris Telnet Worm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
Solaris in.telnetd Grants Access to Remote Users - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
osvdb.org/31881 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Sun Solaris "in.telnetd" Authentication Bypass - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
#201391: Security Vulnerability in the in.telnetd(1M) Daemon May Allow Unauthorized Remote Users to Gain Access to a Solaris Host af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com Broken Link
SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 isc.sans.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Errata Security: Trivial remote Solaris 0day, disable telnet now. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 erratasec.blogspot.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Sun Solaris Telnet Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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