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CVE-2026-24061

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:37cb8f0457a7fe6f453074425948c523e023678b604e16fccccb3656d924bbb8
Known exploited
CISA KEV
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Inetutils","vendor":"GNU","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.7","status":"affected","version":"1.9.3","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":9.8,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-88","description":"CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Known exploitation assertions

2 source assertions
{"cwes":["CWE-88"],"dateAdded":"2026-01-26","dueDate":"2026-02-16","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","notes":"This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git ; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061","prod…
  • cisa_kev_jsonknown_exploited
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c31030b5618e2d5d8690872b2d530fd988ffee615072401a2b3c0278c950aa37 · sha256:16acee8334e59e44… · /vulnerabilities/161
    Open source location →
{"cwes":["CWE-88"],"dateAdded":"2026-01-26","dueDate":"2026-02-16","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","notes":"This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git ; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061","prod…
  • cisa_kev_jsonknown_exploited
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:73a073b071fe0e2809191c383e0ee78972248a350e380c32cd73de02d035eb65 · sha256:635dff916c4092c0… · /vulnerabilities/164
    Open source location →

Source references

13 source assertions
{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/22/1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00025.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/adp/1/references/1
{"url":"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"tags":["government-resource"],"url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-24061"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/adp/0/references/2
{"url":"https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-01-22-f-around-and-find-out-18-hours-of-unsolicited-houseguests/index.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/adp/0/references/1
{"url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2#:~:text=root@...a%3A~%20USER='"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/8"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-detection-script-remote-authentication-bypass-in-gnu-inetutils-package"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-mitigation-script-remote-authentication-bypass-in-gnu-inetutils-package"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:6bee0f00346cd5b78f2cd8c19e2e423cd3f774f9ee69e844deb37427a2bc57a3 · sha256:bede50a1527d04c1… · /containers/cna/references/7

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