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CVE-2026-28372
high 7.8
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.
Details
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- Last changed
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- Weakness
- CWE-829
Severity
| Version | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | high 7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
cve@mitre.orgSecondary |
| CVSS 3.1 | high 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
nvd@nist.govPrimary |
Affected products
Vendor and product from the NVD’s CPE applicability statements. Versions and conditions are on the NVD’s page.
- gnu · inetutils
References
- https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6cPatch
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.htmlExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/3Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/2