Findings

CVE-2026-44068

Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the…

Published May 21, 2026 · updated Jul 23, 2026

Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the intended metadata namespace via crafted EA names.

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  1. May 21, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the intended metadata namespace via crafted EA names.

  2. Jul 23, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the intended metadata namespace via crafted EA names.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-44068

    Official CVE identifier

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  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-44068

    Incomplete sanitization of extended attribute (EA) path components in Netatalk 2.1.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to write to files outside the intended metadata namespace via crafted EA names.

    nvd.nist.gov

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