CVE-2026-44068

high

Published 2026-05-21 · Modified 2026-05-21

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CVSS v3

7.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.6

Description

Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the intended metadata namespace via crafted EA names.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

84%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`4.4.3~ds-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.4.3~ds-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u2`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.