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CRITICALCVSS 9.8KNOWN EXPLOITED

CVE-2026-24061

CVE-2026-24061 updated by NVD

Published
2026-01-26
Modified
2026-11-04
Sources
cisa-kev, nvd

Summary

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

References

Includes data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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