VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-24061

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS probability98.98%

CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability

Published2026-01-21

Last modified2026-09-30

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Vulnerability

Vendor / product: GNU / InetUtils

Description

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

Weakness classification

cve@mitre.org: CWE-88

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Patch
cve@mitre.org — Patch
cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Product
cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — US Government Resource