CVE-2016-1888

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 15, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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