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Fencer Vulns
low 3.1

CVE-2026-44057 json

Dead bounds check in Spotlight RPC unmarshaller

published 2026-05-21 5 mo ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-31243

cvss
3.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A dead bounds check in the Spotlight RPC unmarshaller in Netatalk 3.0.0 through 4.4.2 results in an unreachable code path that provides no effective bounds protection, which may allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain limited information via crafted Spotlight RPC requests.

Patch / fix

  • Netatalk Netatalk 4.4.3
  • netatalk Debian 13 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u2
  • netatalk Debian 14 4.4.3~ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44057

  • netatalk Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 4.2.3~ds-2.1ubuntu0.2
  • netatalk Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.4+esm2
  • netatalk Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.4+esm2
  • netatalk Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 3.1.18~ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44057

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • netatalk Alpine 3.24 4.4.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-44057

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-44057 updated cvss 3.1

netatalk: Netatalk: Information disclosure via crafted Spotlight RPC requests

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Netatalk Netatalk

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.