CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1888

Improper Authentication

Published: Feb 15, 2017 | Modified: Feb 17, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 9.3 (including) 9.3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 (including) 10.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 10.3 (including) 10.3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References