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4 vulnerabilities found for Inetutils by GNU
CVE-2026-32772 (GCVE-0-2026-32772)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-13 21:01 – Updated: 2026-03-16 17:02
VLAI?
Summary
telnet in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows servers to read arbitrary environment variables from clients via NEW_ENVIRON SEND USERVAR.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-669 - Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
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CVE-2026-32746 (GCVE-0-2026-32746)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-13 17:15 – Updated: 2026-03-23 13:13
VLAI?
Summary
telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows an out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE SLC (Set Local Characters) suboption handler because add_slc does not check whether the buffer is full.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
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CVE-2026-28372 (GCVE-0-2026-28372)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-27 05:28 – Updated: 2026-03-07 17:05
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CWE
- CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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CVE-2026-24061 (GCVE-0-2026-24061)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-21 06:42 – Updated: 2026-03-25 13:31
VLAI?
Summary
telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
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