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CVE-2026-24061

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Added 2026-01-26Remediation due 2026-02-16

A public exploit / detection template exists

Weaponised detection is publicly available, which meaningfully raises real-world risk regardless of CVSS. nuclei-templates

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

9.8
CVSS
98.1%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
100th
EPSS percentile
2026-01-21
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-88

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
gnuinetutils>= 1.9.3, <= 2.7
debiandebian_linux11.0

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-24061