THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2026-32746
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2026-32746

Inetutils vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
23.7%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows an out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE SLC (Set Local Characters) suboption handler because add_slc does not check whether the buffer is full.
Affected vendor
Gnu
Affected product
Inetutils
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-03-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 23.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gnu Inetutils is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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