{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372","details":"telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that can be exploited by abusing systemd service credentials support added to the login(1) implementation of util-linux in release 2.40. This is related to client control over the CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY environment variable, and requires an unprivileged local user to create a login.noauth file.","modified":"2026-09-14T17:03:25.002273851Z","published":"2026-02-27T06:18:00.077Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-28372"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-28372"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"inetutils","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:2.4-2+deb12u3"}]}],"versions":["2:2.4-2","2:2.4-2+deb12u1","2:2.4-2+deb12u2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"}},{"package":{"name":"inetutils","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:2.6-3+deb13u2"}]}],"versions":["2:2.6-3","2:2.6-3+deb13u1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"}},{"package":{"name":"inetutils","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:2.7-3"}]}],"versions":["2:2.6-3","2:2.6-4","2:2.7-1","2:2.7-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}