documentation_complete: true

title: 'Uninstall the inet-based telnet server'

description: 'The inet-based telnet daemon should be uninstalled.'

rationale: 'telnet allows clear text communications, and does not protect any data transmission between client and server. Any confidential data can be listened and no integrity checking is made.'

severity: high

identifiers:
    cce: ""

references:
    anssi: NT007(R03)
    disa: ""
    nist: AC-17(8),CM-7
