A vulnerability has been found in Host (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Telnet Server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description is: "The Telnet service is running."

The weakness was released 01/01/1999. This vulnerability was named CVE-1999-0619. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as highly functional.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .Proper firewalling of tcp/23 (telnet) is able to address this issue. The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with SSH as an alternative. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be the change of configuration settings.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 14390, 14389, 14388 and 14387.

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