๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ CVE-2026-24061
๐Ÿ”ด CVSS 9.8 โ€” Critical โš ๏ธ Exploit Public CWE-88 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-88
Public Exploit โš ๏ธ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-21
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-02-11

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux โ€” โ€”
inetutils 1.9.3 2.7

References

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