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TI-2005-00445 Aliases CVE-2005-0488GHSA-r4w9-9whg-94xw

Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow…

Priority MEDIUM 40Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Partial · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.17123 97th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 1 advisory

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:telnet_client:5.1.2600.2180:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.1.2600.2180VulnerableMicrosoft
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.3.4Vulnerablemoos-ivp
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.9VulnerableSun
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:telnet_client:5.1.2600.2180:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.1.2600.2180 Vulnerable ·Microsoft
  • cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.3.4 Vulnerable ·moos-ivp
  • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.9 Vulnerable ·Sun

Remediation

Red Hat 1 advisory

  • RHSA-2005:562 Released 2005-07-12 · Red Hat rating Critical
    krb5 security update
    • Red Hat Desktop version 3 krb5-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47.i386 +6
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 krb5-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47.i386 +14
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 krb5-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47.i386 +10
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 krb5-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47, krb5-devel-1.2.7-47.i386 +10

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Desktop version 3Fixed RHSA-2005:504, RHSA-2005:562
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3Fixed RHSA-2005:504, RHSA-2005:562
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4Fixed RHSA-2005:504
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4Fixed RHSA-2005:504
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3Fixed RHSA-2005:504, RHSA-2005:562
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4Fixed RHSA-2005:504
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3Fixed RHSA-2005:504, RHSA-2005:562
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4Fixed RHSA-2005:504

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2005-0488
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r4w9-9whg-94xw

References

Patch 3

Advisory 8

Other 3

Sources

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