{"id":6766,"date":"2026-01-22T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/critical-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-flaw-lets-attackers-bypass-login-and-gain-root-access\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:13:02","slug":"critical-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-flaw-lets-attackers-bypass-login-and-gain-root-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/critical-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-flaw-lets-attackers-bypass-login-and-gain-root-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical GNU InetUtils telnetd Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Login and Gain Root Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years.<br \/>\nThe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It affects all versions of GNU InetUtils from version 1.9.3 up to and including version 2.7.<br \/>\n&#8220;Telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass\u00a0A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years.<br \/>\nThe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It affects all versions of GNU InetUtils from version 1.9.3 up to and including version 2.7.<br \/>\n&#8220;Telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It affects all versions of GNU InetUtils from version 1.9.3 up to and including version 2.7. &#8220;Telnetd in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/critical-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-flaw-lets-attackers-bypass-login-and-gain-root-access\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical GNU InetUtils telnetd Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Login and Gain Root Access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}