CVE detail
CVE-2026-24061: GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Vulnerability
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog · back to feed
Vendor / product
GNU · InetUtils
- Date added (KEV)
- Jan 26, 2026
- CISA due date
- Feb 16, 2026
- Ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
Required action
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Technical detail
From CISA
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.
This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git ; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc; https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061
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- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.htmlMitigationVendor Advisory
- https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32ccPatch
- https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7bPatch
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-mitigation-script-remote-authentication-bypass-in-gnu-inetutils-packageMitigationThird Party Advisory
- https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/
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