Telnetd Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-32746)
In March 2026, a critical severity vulnerability was disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnetd service. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, impacts all versions up to and including InetUtils 2.7. Telnetd is a legacy remote access service that establishes interactive shell sessions over the Telnet protocol. The vulnerability enables remote unauthenticated attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution with root privileges.