CVE-2026-24061 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 21.01.2026 Published: 21.01.2026 Updated: 23.01.2026

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

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor GNU
Product Inetutils
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 1.9.3 to 2.7 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') CWE