ALPINE-CVE-2026-24061

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-24061
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-24061.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-24061
Upstream
Published
2026-01-21T07:16:01Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:33:01Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.24 / inetutils-telnet

Package

Name
inetutils-telnet
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/inetutils-telnet?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-24061.json"