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Vulnerability details: VCID-6xfm-qpgd-ebaw
Vulnerability ID VCID-6xfm-qpgd-ebaw
Aliases CVE-2026-28372
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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.7
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2026-03-03T16:12:52Z/ Found at https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=3953943d8296310485f98963883a798545ab9a6c
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2026-03-03T16:12:52Z/ Found at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2026-03-03T16:12:52Z/ Found at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00012.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2026-03-03T16:12:52Z/ Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.00505
EPSS Score 7e-05
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:39:28.247487+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0