CVE-2007-0882

Public Exploit

Description

Argument 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.

Category

10.0
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 91.35% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory vupen.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459843/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0560 vdb entry broken link vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32434 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872 third party advisory us government resource
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2202 vdb entry signature broken link
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/02/trivial-remote-solaris-0day-disable.html third party advisory exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460086/100/100/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/24120 broken link third party advisory vendor advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0217.html third party advisory mailing list
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017625 vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2220 third party advisory exploit
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102802-1 vendor advisory broken link
http://osvdb.org/31881 vdb entry broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22512 vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459831/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460103/100/100/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459980/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-059A.html us government resource third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459855/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-0882?
CVE-2007-0882 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-0882?
To fix CVE-2007-0882, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2007-0882 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2007-0882 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~91% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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