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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| 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. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-829 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2026-02-27T05:28:17.383Z
Updated: 2026-02-28T04:55:43.235Z
Reserved: 2026-02-27T05:28:17.221Z
Link: CVE-2026-28372
Updated: 2026-02-27T18:10:42.314Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-02-27T06:18:00.077
Modified: 2026-03-02T15:12:11.510
Link: CVE-2026-28372
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