CVE-2026-44057 PUBLISHED

Dead bounds check in Spotlight RPC unmarshaller

Assigner: securin
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 21.05.2026 Updated: 21.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

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

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Netatalk
Product	Netatalk
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 3.0.0 to 4.4.2 (incl.) Version 4.4.3 is unaffected

Credits

Arjun Basnet from Securin finder

References

Netatalk Security Advisory CVE-2026-44057

Problem Types

Dead Code CWE