Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-38439

RCE

Title: Netatalk RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-38439.

CWE Category CWE-787
Published Date Jun 16, 2024
Modified Date Nov 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-38439: Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[PASSWDLEN] to '\0' in FPLoginExt in login in etc/uams/uams_pam.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.

Impacted Vendors

N
netatalk 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-38439 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.