CVE-2026-28372 (GCVE-0-2026-28372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-27 05:28 – Updated: 2026-03-07 17:05
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Summary
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.
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7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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GNU inetutils Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.7 (custom)
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