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FKIE_CVE-2026-44059

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-21 08:16 - Updated: 2026-07-23 15:10

Severity

4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Summary

A race condition in the privilege toggle mechanism in Netatalk 2.2.5 through 4.4.2 allows a local attacker to obtain limited information, modify limited data, or cause a minor service disruption.

References

	URL	Tags
	33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c	https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2026-44059

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-44059 (GCVE-0-2026-44059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-21 07:34 – Updated: 2026-05-21 12:27

Title

Non-reentrant privilege toggle

Summary

A race condition in the privilege toggle mechanism in Netatalk 2.2.5 through 4.4.2 allows a local attacker to obtain limited information, modify limited data, or cause a minor service disruption.

Severity

3.9 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-21 12:27 UTC

CWE

CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Assigner

securin mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2026-44059	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Netatalk	Netatalk	Affected: 2.2.5 , ≤ 4.4.2 (semver) Unaffected: 4.5.0 (semver)

Date Public

2026-05-13 00:00

Credits

Arjun Basnet from Securin

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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