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CVE

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 login(1) implementation of util-linux in release 2.40...
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CVE

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 login(1) implementation of util-linux in release 2.40...

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.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.4
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/3, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/1, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/3, https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html

Severity

7.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.8
EPSS Probability
0.00009%
EPSS Percentile
0.00875%
Introduced Version
0
Fix Available
3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c,2:2.4-2+deb12u3,2:2.0-1+deb11u4,2:2.6-3+deb13u2

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