CVE-2026-24061

🚨 CRITICAL

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

Published
Jan 21, 2026
Last Modified
Jan 27, 2026
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telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

Affected Products (2)

gnu - inetutils

Version: *

debian - debian_linux

Version: 11.0

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 9.8
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0 9.8

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Source
cve@mitre.org
State
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