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Inetutils

8 CVEs tracked. 1 of them are in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Inetutils, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Inetutils CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Inetutils CVEs per month
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Severity

How the 8 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical338%
  • High338%
  • Medium113%
  • Low113%

Latest CVEs

The 8 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Inetutils.

  1. CVE-2026-32772telnet in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows servers to read arbitrary environment variables from clients via NEW_ENVIRON SEND USERVAR.3.4
  2. CVE-2026-32746telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows an out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE SLC (Set Local Characters) suboption handler because add_slc does not check whether the buffer is full.9.8
  3. CVE-2026-28372telnetd 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...7.4
  4. CVE-2026-24061telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.9.8
  5. CVE-2023-40303GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if...7.8
  6. CVE-2022-39028telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8. In a typical installation, the telnetd application...7.5
  7. CVE-2021-40491The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.6.5
  8. CVE-2011-4862Buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in telnetd in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0, MIT Kerberos Version 5 Applications (aka krb5-appl) 1.0.2 and earlier, Heimdal 1.5.1 and earlier, GNU inetutils, and po...10.0

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