CVE-2016-1888

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The telnetd service in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 allows remote attackers to inject arguments to login and bypass authentication via vectors involving a "sequence of memory allocation failures."

El servicio telnetd en FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 y 11.0 permite a atacantes remotos inyectar argumentos para iniciar sesión y eludir la autenticación a través de vectores que implican una "secuencia de fallos de asignación de memoria".

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-01-13 CVE Reserved
2017-02-15 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc	2017-02-17

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				9.3 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "9.3"		-		Affected
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				10.1 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "10.1"		-		Affected
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				10.2 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "10.2"		-		Affected
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				10.3 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "10.3"		-		Affected
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				11.0 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "11.0"		-		Affected