Information Exposure Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.3.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006757
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • 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 kerberos.

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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