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Permalink CVE-2026-24061
9.8 CRITICAL
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 2 months, 4 weeks ago
telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass …

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

Affected products

Inetutils
  • =<2.7

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.inetutils

Collection of common network programs

  • nixos-unstable 2.6
    • nixpkgs-unstable 2.6
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.6
  • nixos-25.11 2.6
    • nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 2.6

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