CVE-2016-1888

HIGH

FreeBSD - Command Injection

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)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0175

EPSS Percentile 82.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-287

Status draft

Affected Products (5)

freebsd/freebsd

Timeline

Published Feb 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026