Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L), no loss to integrity (I:N) and lead to some loss of availability (A:L). What is the impact of this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access limited sensitive information from system memory and may cause intermittent interruptions or reduced performance in the affected application. However, it would not allow the attacker to modify data.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker could potentially read limited portions of memory from the affected system, which may include sensitive information being processed by the Telnet client at the time of the connection.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
For this vulnerability to be exploited, a user would need to initiate a Telnet connection to a malicious or compromised server, allowing specially crafted authentication responses to be processed by the Telnet client. Successful exploitation requires a user to take an action before the vulnerability can be triggered.
Security updates
10.0.17763.8755 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087538
10.0.20348.5139 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087545
10.0.20348.5074 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087424
10.0.19044.7291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087544
10.0.19045.7417 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5094127
10.0.26100.32860 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087539
10.0.26100.32772 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087423
10.0.26200.8457 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089549
10.0.26200.8390 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089466
10.0.22631.7079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087420
10.0.22631.7219 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5093998
10.0.25398.2330 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087541
10.0.28000.2113 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5089548
10.0.14393.9140 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087537
6.2.9200.26079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087470
6.3.9600.23181 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5087471
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.4
Windows 11 Telnet Client Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds read in Telnet Client allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-35423 Windows 11 Telnet Client Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-35423
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss