CVE-2026-28372highCWE-829

CVE-2026-28372: high-severity vulnerability in GNU inetutils

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.4epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
GNU · inetutils
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References
https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6chttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.htmlhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/2