🛡️ CVE-2026-44061 on Ubuntu — netatalk

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Netatalk 1.5.0 through 4.4.2 uses DES-ECB for authentication with a timing side channel, which allows a remote attacker to recover authentication credentials via timing analysis.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-44061 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package netatalk. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44061 is classified as CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy. Two separate operations in a product require different amounts of time to complete, in a way that is observable to an actor and reveals security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44061 is recorded against 1 package.

  • netatalk

Timeline and source

Published on 21 May 2026 and last revised on 22 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
netatalk.io (Report)

CVE-2026-44061 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-21
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
netatalk — —

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