DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0956

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0956 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

The telnet daemon (telnetd) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain system access via a username beginning with a '-' character, a similar issue to CVE-2007-0882.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	krb5	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 6, 2007 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0956 advisory

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