Telnet Flaw Allows Unauthenticated Users to Gain Root Access. Hackers are on the hunt for open telnet ports in servers after discovering that a version of legacy client-server application protocol is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. More than 800,000 servers could be actively targeted in the wild.
First seen on govinfosecurity.com
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