CRITICALCVSS 9.8Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2026-01-26Vulnerability
CVE-2026-24061
GNU InetUtils contains an argument injection vulnerability in telnetd that could allow for remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
Properties
- Euvd product
- Inetutils
- Vulnerability name
- GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Vulnerability
- First seen
- 2026-09-29T19:43:14+00:00
- Cvss score
- 9.8
- Epss score
- 0.98984
- Last seen
- 2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
- Due date
- 2026-02-16
- Euvd assigner
- mitre
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:49+00:00
- Exploited euvd since
- 2026-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Src batch id
- epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
- Source url
- https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
- Date added
- 2026-01-26
- Score
- 9.8
- Euvd base score version
- 3.1
- Fetched at
- 2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
- Euvd vendor
- GNU
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- In Signal since
- initial import (Sep 2026)
- Euvd base score
- 9.8
Related Entities (5)
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INVOLVES (1)
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