CVE-2016-1888

HIGH

FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1-10.3, 11.0 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Memory Allocation Failure Sequence

Title source: llm

Description

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."

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0130

EPSS Percentile 80.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-287

Status published

Products (5)

freebsd/freebsd 9.3

freebsd/freebsd 10.1

freebsd/freebsd 10.2

freebsd/freebsd 10.3

freebsd/freebsd 11.0

Published Feb 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026