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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2026-28372 Detail

Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/3 CVE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/2 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/06/3 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/1 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/07/2 CVE
https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c MITRE Patch 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html MITRE Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.html MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1 MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere MITRE  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-28372
NVD Published Date:
02/27/2026
NVD Last Modified:
03/07/2026
Source:
MITRE