CVE-2005-1566 — Acrowave AAP-3100AR wireless router allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by pressing CTRL-C at the username or password prompt in a telnet session, which causes the shell to crash and restart, then leave the user in the new shell

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HIGH

Acrowave AAP-3100AR wireless router allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by pressing CTRL-C at the username or password prompt in a telnet session, which causes the shell to crash and restart, then leave the user in the new shell

Published May 14, 2005

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.64%

Description

Acrowave AAP-3100AR wireless router allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by pressing CTRL-C at the username or password prompt in a telnet session, which causes the shell to crash and restart, then leave the user in the new shell.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.64% 0.01635

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01635

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.64% (0.01635)	75.47th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.64% (0.01635)	73.14th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.59% (0.00586)	67.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.84% (0.00840)	82.79th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 20, 2024	0.84% (0.00840)	81.90th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	0.91% (0.00913)	80.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.29% (0.01290)	83.67th	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)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111592452331677&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15343
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/16445
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111592452331677&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15343		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/16445		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 14, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 14, 2005

Link CVE-2005-1566

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-1566

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-1566