Netkit is a narrowly scoped network-simulation toolkit that, despite limited disclosure volume, occupies a specialized role in academic and research networking environments. Vulnerabilities affecting the product skew toward serious outcomes and tend to acquire public exploit code, clustering around classic memory-safety issues such as buffer overflows and command-injection weaknesses that are characteristic of older, research-oriented C implementations. Live severity, exploitation, and exposure figures are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Netkit over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (7 CVEs).
7 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2001-0554HIGH Buffer overflow in BSD-based telnetd telnet daemon on various operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a set of options including AYT (Are You Th | Aug 14, 2001 | 10.0 | 60 | NO | YES |
CVE-2023-38336CRITICAL netkit-rcp in rsh-client 0.17-24 allows command injection via filenames because /bin/sh is used by susystem, a related issue to CVE-2006-0225, CVE-2019-7283, and CVE-2020-15778. | Jul 14, 2023 | 9.8 | 27 | NO | NO |
CVE-2004-0640HIGH Format string vulnerability in the SSL_set_verify function in telnetd.c for SSLtelnet daemon (SSLtelnetd) 0.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. | Aug 6, 2004 | 10.0 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-7283HIGH An issue was discovered in rcp in NetKit through 0.17. For an rcp operation, the server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the rcp client only perform | Jan 31, 2019 | 7.4 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2006-6008MEDIUM ftpd in Linux Netkit (linux-ftpd) 0.17, and possibly other versions, does not check the return status of certain seteuid, setgid, and setuid calls, which might allow remote authent | Nov 21, 2006 | 6.5 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-7282MEDIUM In NetKit through 0.17, rcp.c in the rcp client allows remote rsh servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying | Jan 31, 2019 | 5.9 | 17 | NO | NO |
CVE-2005-0178MEDIUM Race condition in the setsid function in Linux before 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly access portions of kernel memory, related to TTY | Mar 7, 2005 | 6.2 | 17 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (7 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Netkit.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Netkit — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.