Hackers Exploiting telnetd Vulnerability for Root Access – Public PoC Released

Active exploitation of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server (CVE-2026-24061) has been observed in the wild, allowing unauthenticated attackers to gain root access to Linux systems. The vulnerability, which affects GNU InetUtils versions 1.9.3 through 2.7, enables remote code execution by manipulating the USER environment variable passed during the Telnet […]

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