Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-44056

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 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-44056 is a medium-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Netatalk (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210); ranked at the 27.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A stack-based buffer overflow in desktop.c in Netatalk 1.3 through 4.2.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service, obtain limited information, or modify limited data.

CWE(s)
CWE-121

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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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?

Stack buffer overflow in remote authenticated service enables exploitation of remote services for impact (DoS via app exploitation).

Confidence: MEDIUM · 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

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References