CVE-2026-28372
telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that can be exploited by abusing systemd service credentials support added to the log...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372 inetutils Fixed in: 2:2.0-1+deb11u4
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28372 inetutils Fixed in: 2:1.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm4
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web openwall.com
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- web git.hadrons.org
- web lists.gnu.org
- web lists.gnu.org
- web openwall.com