CVE-2000-1195: Caldera Openlinux Edesktop

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

telnet daemon (telnetd) from the Linux netkit package before netkit-telnet-0.16 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication when telnetd is running with the -L command line option.

Affected products

  • Caldera Openlinux Edesktop: version 2.3 only
  • Caldera Openlinux Eserver: version 2.3 only

Published 2001-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.