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CVE-2000-0733: Sgi Irix: Command injection
CVE-2000-0733 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Sgi Irix. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability description
Telnetd telnet server in IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 does not properly cleans user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long RLD variable in the IAC-SB-TELOPT_ENVIRON request.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
- Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
- Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
- Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
- Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
- Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.
Affected products
- Sgi Irix: 5.2; 5.3; 6.0; 6.0.1; 6.1; 6.2; 6.3; 6.4; 6.5; 6.5.1; 6.5.2m; 6.5.3