CVE-2026-44059

medium

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

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CVSS v3

4.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

45%

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

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Fixed	`4.5.0~ds-1`
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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