National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-1999-0073
Original release date:10/13/1995
Last revised:09/09/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Telnet allows a remote client to specify environment variables including LD_LIBRARY_PATH, allowing an attacker to bypass the normal system libraries and gain root access.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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