CVE-2026-44068

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

21/05/2026

Last modified:

21/05/2026

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

7.60

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2026-44068