CVE-2026-24061
Hackers exploit critical telnetd auth bypass flaw to get root
A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server for 11 years. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-24061 and was reported on January 20. It is trivial to leverage and multiple exploit examples are publicly available. Bug persisted since 2015 Open-source contributor Simon Josefsson explains that the […]
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