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Every published CVE plus open-source advisories (NVD, OSV, GitHub), with CVSS, EPSS and whether it is being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Updated every few hours. Our scans match these against the technologies they detect.
Every published CVE plus open-source advisories (NVD, OSV, GitHub), with CVSS, EPSS and whether it is being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Updated every few hours. Our scans match these against the technologies they detect.
| 27/02/2026 |
| CVE-2026-24061KEV | CRITICAL9.8 | telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable. | 21/01/2026 |
| CVE-2023-40303 | HIGH7.8 | GNU 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 the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activ | 14/08/2023 |
| CVE-2022-39028 | HIGH7.5 | telnetd 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 would crash but the telnet service would remain available through inetd. However, if the telnetd application has many cras | 30/08/2022 |
| CVE-2021-40491 | MEDIUM6.5 | The 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. | 03/09/2021 |
| CVE-2011-4862 | CRITICAL10.0 | Buffer 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 possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long encryption key, as exploited in the wild | 25/12/2011 |