CVE-2026-24061

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/01/2026

Last modified:

30/01/2026

Description

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

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils::::::::	1.9.3 (including)	2.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2026-24061

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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