Is CVE-2007-0882 being actively exploited?

CVE-2007-0882 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2007-0882?

CVE-2007-0882 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 10.0 (HIGH).

CVE-2007-0882

HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 98.1%EU EUVD

Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to log into certain accounts, as demonstrated by the bin account.

Key facts

CVSS score: 10.0 (v2.0)
Severity: HIGH
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE): CWE-88
EPSS score: 98.1% (100th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2007-0878)
Published: February 12, 2007
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0878 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

oracle / solaris
oracle / solaris
sun / sunos
sun / sunos

References

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/02/trivial-remote-solaris-0day-disable.html(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2220(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
http://osvdb.org/31881(Broken Link)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0217.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/24120(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102802-1(Broken Link)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459831/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459843/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459855/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459980/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460086/100/100/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460103/100/100/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22512(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017625(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-059A.html(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0560(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32434(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2202(Broken Link)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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