27 Years old Telnet Vulnerability Enables Attackers to Gain Root Access

A newly confirmed vulnerability in the telnet daemon (telnetd) in GNU Inetutils has revived a 27-year-old security flaw, allowing attackers to gain root access by exploiting improper sanitization of environment variables, with no authentication required. Tracked as CVE-2026-24061, the flaw exists in GNU Inetutils through version 2.7 and enables remote authentication bypass when a malicious client […]

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