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CVE-2026-28372

🔴 HIGH

telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that can be exploited by abusing systemd service credentials support added to the login(1) implementation of util-linux in release 2.40...

Published
Feb 27, 2026
Last Modified
Mar 02, 2026
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telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that can be exploited by abusing systemd service credentials support added to the login(1) implementation of util-linux in release 2.40. This is related to client control over the CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY environment variable, and requires an unprivileged local user to create a login.noauth file.

Affected Products (1)

gnu - inetutils

Version: *

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 7.4
7.4
HIGH
CVSS 2.0 7.4

References

git.hadrons.org lists.gnu.org lists.gnu.org www.openwall.com www.openwall.com

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cve@mitre.org
State
Analyzed

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