Happy Monday. You may want to keep an eye on CVE-2026-24061 which is a critical telnetd authentication bypass flaw that attackers are actively exploiting to gain root access: New research from SafeBreach Labs deepens the story with the first full root cause analysis and proof-of-concept exploit that explains exactly how this vulnerability works—and why it’s highly dangerous and easy to exploit.
The researchers have also released tooling and simulation artifacts that allow organizations to test exposure.
The full research blog available here.
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New PoC Exploit released for telnetd CVE by SafeBreach Labs
Happy Monday. You may want to keep an eye on CVE-2026-24061 which is a critical telnetd authentication bypass flaw that attackers are actively exploiting to gain root access: New research from SafeBreach Labs deepens the story with the first full root cause analysis and proof-of-concept exploit that explains exactly how this vulnerability works—and why it’s highly dangerous and easy to exploit.
The researchers have also released tooling and simulation artifacts that allow organizations to test exposure.
The full research blog available here.
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