DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-28372
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2026-02-27T06:18:00Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:25Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / inetutils

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.4-2+deb12u3

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.4-2
2:2.4-2+deb12u1
2:2.4-2+deb12u2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"

Debian:13 / inetutils

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.6-3+deb13u2

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.6-3
2:2.6-3+deb13u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"

Debian:14 / inetutils

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:2.7-3

Affected versions

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

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28372.json"