CVE-1999-0073Critical· 10.0▾ MidnightTelnet 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.
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 55 · likelihood 0.6 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
3.1%
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.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.