CVE-2026-24061
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 99.0%
telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.
- Affected
- GNU · Inetutils
- CVSS v3.1 MITRE
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 98.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2026-01-26
- Nuclei
- critical · CWE-88
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- Updated
- 2026-09-29
Proof-of-concept exploits (56)
- SafeBreach-Labs/CVE-2026-24061208★ · 2026-01-22
- JayGLXR/CVE-2026-24061-POC68★ · 2026-01-22
- TryA9ain/CVE-2026-2406110★ · 2026-01-22
- Chocapikk/CVE-2026-2406111★ · 2026-01-22
- 0p5cur/CVE-2026-24061-POC9★ · 2026-08-11
- Lingzesec/CVE-2026-24061-GUI17★ · 2026-01-28
- h3athen/CVE-2026-240618★ · 2026-01-22
- sh4den/CVE-2026-240616★ · 2026-07-06
- shivam-bathla/CVE-2026-24061-setup4★ · 2026-01-24
- balgan/CVE-2026-240614★ · 2026-01-23
- xuemian168/CVE-2026-240613★ · 2026-01-23
- duy-31/CVE-2026-24061---telnetd2★ · 2026-01-25
- Mefhika120/Ashwesker-CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-23
- novitahk/Exploit-CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-27
- infat0x/CVE-2026-240611★ · 2026-01-25
- r00tuser111/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-23
- Mr-Zapi/CVE-2026-240611★ · 2026-01-24
- typeconfused/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-25
- BrainBob/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-24
- LucasPDiniz/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-27
- midox008/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-04-28
- 0x7556/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-28
- Parad0x7e/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-28
- z3n70/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-24
- monstertsl/CVE-2026-240611★ · 2026-01-26
- Alter-N0X/CVE-2026-24061-POC0★ · 2026-01-24
- ms0x08-dev/CVE-2026-24061-POC0★ · 2026-01-25
- dotelpenguin/telnetd_CVE-2026-24061_tester1★ · 2026-01-28
- FurkanKAYAPINAR/CVE-2026-24061-telnet2root1★ · 2026-01-27
- androidteacher/CVE-2026-24061-PoC-Telnetd0★ · 2026-01-27
- BrainBob/Telnet-TestVuln-CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-01-24
- MY0723/GNU-Inetutils-telnet-CVE-2026-24061-1★ · 2026-01-28
- scumfrog/cve-2026-240610★ · 2026-02-06
- SeptembersEND/CVE--2026-240610★ · 2026-02-02
- obrunolima1910/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-10-14
- przemytn/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-03-18
- X-croot/CVE-2026-24061_POC2★ · 2026-02-01
- HD0x01/CVE-2026-24061-NSE0★ · 2026-03-16
- canpilayda/inetutils-telnetd-cve-2026-240610★ · 2026-02-04
- JakeSwiz/telnet-inetutils-auth-bypass-CVE-2026-240611★ · 2026-01-31
- mbanyamer/CVE-2026-24061-GNU-Inetutils-telnetd-Remote-Authentication-Bypass-Root-Shell-0★ · 2026-02-18
- harygovind/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-07-06
- kyukazamiqq/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-06-27
- anxs3c/CVE-2026-24061-GNU-InetUtils-telnetd0★ · 2026-06-08
- s-vx/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-07-25
- iLokaas/CVE-2026-24061-payload0★ · 2026-08-28
- hackingyseguridad/root3★ · 2026-07-17
- 0xBlackash/CVE-2026-240611★ · 2026-10-16
- franckferman/CVE-2026-240615★ · 2026-03-27
- tc4dy/CVE-2026-24061-PoC-Exploit8★ · 2026-10-14
- tiborscholtz/CVE-2026-240610★ · 2026-02-14
- Collinformatics/HTB-Orion0★ · 2026-08-04
- LKSTA/LKSDIKMEN-Cybersecurity-20268★ · 2026-01-30
- ridpath/Terrminus-CVE-2026-24062★ · 2026-01-30
- Ish3ng0m4/CVE-2026-24061-Telnetd0★ · 2026-09-04
- Yoksulcvt/CVE-2026-24061-Telnet-Authentication-Bypass0★ · 2026-10-07
Nuclei templates (1)
Metasploit modules (1)
ExploitDB entries (1)
Vulhub environments (1)
Exploit collections (1)
- CVE-2026-24061.yamlzan8in/afrog
Security advisories
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00025.html
- https://redteam.ae/blog/cve-2026-24061-inetutils-telnetd-root-bypass
- https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-01-22-f-around-and-find-out-18-hours-of-unsol…
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2#:~:text=root@...a%3A~%20USER='
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-detection-script-remote-authenticat…
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2026-24061-mitigation-script-remote-authentica…
- https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/ccba9f748aa8d50a38d7748e2e60362edd6a32cc
- https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fd702c02497b2f398e739e3119bed0b23dd7aa7b
- https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils