The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-24061 impacts GNU inetutils telnetd. It allows an attacker to bypass remote authentication via a “-f root” value for the USER environment variable.
Stormhield Network Security (SNS) appliance protects you from that attack, thanks to an dedicated IPS signature.
| ID | Name |
| telnet:client:1 | Telnetd authentication bypass (CVE-2007-0882 and CVE-2026-24061) |