PT-2026-42417 · Netatalk · Netatalk

Arjun Basnet · Published 2026-05-21 · Updated 2026-05-21 · CVE-2026-44061

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Netatalk versions 1.5.0 through 4.4.2

Description The software uses DES-ECB (Data Encryption Standard in Electronic Codebook mode) for authentication, which is susceptible to a timing side channel. This allows a remote attacker to recover authentication credentials by performing timing analysis.

Recommendations Update to version 4.5.0.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-208

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-44061

Affected Products

Netatalk

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44061 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-44061 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44061 · Vendor Advisory
• https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2026-44061 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44061 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44061 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44061 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2057407774208692545 · Twitter Post