CVE-2000-1184 — telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying an arbitrary large file in the TERMCAP environmental variable, which consumes resources as the server processes the file

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telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying an arbitrary large file in the TERMCAP environmental variable, which consumes resources as the server processes the file

Published Jan 22, 2001

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.66%

Description

telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying an arbitrary large file in the TERMCAP environmental variable, which consumes resources as the server processes the file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.66% 0.01657

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01657

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.66% (0.01657)	75.75th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.66% (0.01657)	73.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.74% (0.00739)	71.20th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.83% (0.00835)	82.74th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.83% (0.00835)	81.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.83% (0.00835)	79.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:69.telnetd.v1.1.asc
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/6083
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:69.telnetd.v1.1.asc		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/6083		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 22, 2001

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Dec 14, 2000

Link CVE-2000-1184

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2000-1184

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2000-1184