Information Exposure Affecting krb5 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.25% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-KRB5-10078717
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed14 Jun 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jun 2005

CVE-2005-0488  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for krb5.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

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