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 login1 implementation of util-linux in release 2.40. This is related to client control over the CREDENTIALSDIRECTORY environment variable, and require...

PT-2026-22300

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU inetutils versions through 2.7 Description A privilege escalation issue exists in telnetd within GNU inetutils. The issue stems from improper handling of the CREDENTIALS DIRECTORY environment variable, introduced with systemd service...

CVE-2026-24061

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