Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-20764 - Unspecified vulnerability in Helpsystems Boks 6.6.0/6.7.1

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
helpsystems
linux

Summary

A buffer overflow exists in HelpSystems tcpcrypt on Linux, used for BoKS encrypted telnet through BoKS version 6.7.1. Since tcpcrypt is setuid, exploitation leads to privilege escalation.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Helpsystems
2
OS
Linux
1