watchtowr-vs-telnetd-CVE-2026-32746

Detection Artifact Generator for telnetd CVE-2026-32746.

See our blog post for technical details.

Detection in Action

python watchtowr-vs-telnetd-CVE-2026-32746.py --rhost 127.0.0.1
                     __         ___  ___________                   
     __  _  ______ _/  |__ ____ |  |_\__    ____\____  _  ________ 
     \ \/ \/ \__  \    ___/ ___\|  |  \|    | /  _ \ \/ \/ \_  __ \
      \     / / __ \|  | \  \___|   Y  |    |(  <_> \     / |  | \/
       \/\_/ (____  |__|  \___  |___|__|__  | \__  / \/\_/  |__|   
                  \/          \/     \/                            

        watchtowr-vs-telnetd-CVE-2026-32746.py

        (*) telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Detection Artifact Generator
        
          - McCaulay (@_mccaulay) of watchTowr (@watchTowrcyber)

        CVEs: [CVE-2026-32746]


[#] Connecting to 127.0.0.1:23
[+] Connected
[+] LINEMODE is supported
[!] telnetd vulnerable

Description

This script attempts to detect if telnetd is vulnerable to CVE-2026-32746.

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