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Message-ID: <9262f36a-a626-44ed-a8b8-af888cc9601b@greenbone.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:25:31 +0100
From: Christian Fischer <christian.fischer@...enbone.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote
authentication by-pass in telnetd
Hello,
On 1/20/26 3:00 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> If someone can allocated a CVE, we will add it in future release notes.
it seems https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24061 got assigned by
MITRE to this now:
> telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication
> bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
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