Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-44054

Medium

Published: 21 May 2026

Published
21 May 2026
Modified
21 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-44054 is a medium-severity Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CWE-330) vulnerability in Netatalk (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 30.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Netatalk 2.0.0 through 4.4.2 generates AFP session tokens derived from predictable process IDs, which allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by exploiting the reconnect mechanism.

CWE(s)
CWE-330

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Predictable session token flaw directly enables remote authenticated DoS via application exploitation (T1499.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

Affected Assets

Netatalk
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management
addresses: CWE-330

Key generation under controlled management uses approved random-bit sources rather than insufficiently random values.

References