CVE-2026-28372 (GCVE-0-2026-28372)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-02-27 05:28
Modified
2026-03-07 17:05
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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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