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Vulnerability · Published Nov 12, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-45188

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity heap buffer overflow in the netatalk package (Alpine). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Netatalk through 3.1.13 has an afp_getappl heap-based buffer overflow resulting in code execution via a crafted .appl file. This provides remote root access on some platforms such as FreeBSD (used for TrueNAS).

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20netatalk3.1.15-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-45188
Alpine:v3.21netatalk3.1.15-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-45188
Alpine:v3.22netatalk3.1.15-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-45188
Alpine:v3.23netatalk3.1.15-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-45188
Alpine:v3.24netatalk3.1.15-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-45188
Debian:13netatalk3.1.15~ds-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45188
Debian:14netatalk3.1.15~ds-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45188
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnetatalk3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45188
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnetatalk3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-6146-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-122 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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