{"id":"CVE-2026-24061","details":"telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a \"-f root\" value for the USER environment variable.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:52:30.436405Z","published":"2026-01-21T07:16:01.597Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-24061"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-mitigation-script-remote-authentication-bypass-in-gnu-inetutils-package"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00025.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2#:~:text=root@...a%3A~%20USER='"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-detection-script-remote-authentication-bypass-in-gnu-inetutils-package"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/22/1"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/8"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-01-22-f-around-and-find-out-18-hours-of-unsolicited-houseguests/index.html"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"1.9.3"},{"last_affected":"2.7"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"11.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.7"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-24061.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}