DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-24061
Import Source
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JSON Data
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Upstream
  • CVE-2026-24061
Downstream
Published
2026-01-21T07:16:01.597Z
Modified
2026-01-25T00:15:56.130717Z
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

Debian:11 / inetutils

Package

Name
inetutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.0-1+deb11u3

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.0-1
2:2.0-1+deb11u1
2:2.0-1+deb11u2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061.json"

Debian:12 / inetutils

Package

Name
inetutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.4-2+deb12u2

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.4-2
2:2.4-2+deb12u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061.json"

Debian:13 / inetutils

Package

Name
inetutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.6-3+deb13u1

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.6-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061.json"

Debian:14 / inetutils

Package

Name
inetutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/inetutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.7-2

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.6-3
2:2.6-4
2:2.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061.json"