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Description

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

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-21 | Published 2026-01-21 | Updated 2026-01-21 | Assigner mitre




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

Problem types

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

Product status

Default status
unknown

1.9.3 (custom)
affected

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/8

www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/

cve.org (CVE-2026-24061)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-24061)

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