This is all over the place by now: telnet in Solaris 10 has a vulnerability that allows you to login as any user, without even the need of a special exploit tool, just by passing certain options to the telnet command line. I just tested it in my Nexenta box, and it works. Honestly, I hadn’t even noticed that telnet was enabled by default. It really should ship disabled, given that ssh comes installed by default on pretty much every box out there these days.
Solaris telnet vulnerability
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Security