Vulnerability in Netatalk
CVE-2023-42464
A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in the Spotlight RPC functions in afpd in Netatalk 3.1.x before 3.1.17. When parsing Spotlight RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types in the underlying protocol. Due to a lack of type checking in callers of the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns the object associated with a key, a malicious actor may be able to fully control the value of the pointer and theoretically achieve Remote Code Execution on the host. This issue is similar to CVE-2023-34967.
EPSS: 0.018 (76.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Netatalk
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0, 11.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Product)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Product)
- cve@mitre.org
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-42464?
- CVE-2023-42464 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Netatalk, classified under Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (Type Confusion). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-09-20.
- How severe is CVE-2023-42464?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.