GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Vulnerability

High Listed in CISA KEV

CVECVE-2026-24061

First seen2026-01-26 00:00 UTC

Disclosed2026-01-26 00:00 UTC

Last updated2026-07-14 20:00 UTC

Channel statuspending_review

Summary

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.

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Affected products

GNU:InetUtils

Sources

CISA KEV DATABASE

Original Links

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061 advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog kev
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git reference
https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc; reference
https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b reference

Timeline

2026-01-26 kev_added CISA KEV
2026-07-14 kev_ingest CISA KEV