What is CVE-2016-1888?

CVE-2016-1888 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-1888?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Freebsd

CVE-2016-1888

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."

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.019 (77.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 9.3, 10.1, 10.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1888?: CVE-2016-1888 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-1888?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.