🚨 Active exploitation confirmed: CVE-2026-24061.
This isn't just theoretical, it's a massive exposure. With nearly 800,000 Telnet instances exposed globally across legacy IoT and outdated servers, the risk of a root-level compromise is real and immediate.
We have updated Pentest-Tools.com to help you validate your exposure:
📡 Network Scanner - detects exposed Telnet services across your internal and external perimeters, identifying potentially vulnerable GNU Inetutils daemons.
🎯 Sniper Auto-Exploiter - safely executes a proof-of-concept to confirm if the authentication bypass is actually exploitable on your systems, providing the evidence needed to prioritize an immediate fix.
⚠️ Crucial detail: This critical vulnerability exists because telnetd fails to sanitize the USER environment variable. An attacker can simply supply -f root to bypass the login prompt entirely and gain instant, unauthenticated root shell access.
Attacks are happening in real-time. Validate your risk before it becomes a root-level compromise.
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Check out more details about this critical vulnerability: https://pentest-tools.com/vulnerabilities-exploits/telnet-inetutils-authentication-bypass_28759
Detect with Network Scanner: https://pentest-tools.com/network-vulnerability-scanning/network-security-scanner-online
Validate with Sniper Auto-Exploiter: https://pentest-tools.com/exploit-helpers/sniper
