Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-02-27T05:28:17.383Z

Last Modified :

2026-03-07T17:05:13.869Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-28372 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Inetutils
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-28372.

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/3 cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/2 cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/3 cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/1 cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/2 cve-icon
https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1 cve-icon cve-icon
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