| Name | CVE-2026-24061 |
| Description | telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4453-1, DSA-6106-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1126047 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| inetutils (PTS) | bullseye | 2:2.0-1+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2:2.0-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:2.4-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2:2.4-2+deb12u2 | fixed |
| trixie | 2:2.6-3 | vulnerable |
| trixie (security) | 2:2.6-3+deb13u1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 2:2.7-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.html
Introduced with: https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fa3245ac8c288b87139a0da8249d0a408c4dfb87 (inetutils-1_9_3)
Fixed by: https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b
Fixed by: https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc