CVE-2018-1160: Netatalk Netatalk

Out-of-bounds write in Netatalk

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.86 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.86 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: tenable) at 20 Dec 2018, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Netatalk	Netatalk	affected Before 3.1.12

Identifiers

CVE-2018-1160

CNA

tenable

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-787

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.86, the 99th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Dec 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/ReleaseNotes3.1.12.html confirm
attachments.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=14735
www.securityfocus.com/bid/106301 vdb-entrybid
github.com/tenable/poc/tree/master/netatalk/cve_2018_1160/
www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_18_62 confirm
www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-48
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4356 vendor-advisorydebian
packetstormsecurity.com/files/152440/QNAP-Netatalk-Authentication-Bypass.html
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46034/ exploitexploit-db
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46048/ exploitexploit-db
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46675/ exploitexploit-db

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.