CVE-2005-0868: Bosanova LAUNCHER400

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AS/400 Telnet 5250 terminal emulation clients, as implemented by (1) IBM client access, (2) Bosanova, (3) PowerTerm, (4) Mochasoft, and possibly other emulations, allows malicious AS/400 servers to execute arbitrary commands via a STRPCO (Start PC Organizer) command followed by STRPCCMD (Start PC command), as demonstrated by creating a backdoor account using REXEC.

Affected products

• Bosanova LAUNCHER400: any version
• IBM Client Access: any version
• Mochasoft TN5250: any version
• Powerterm Interconnect: any version

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.