Critical severity · published Jul 17, 2018
CVE-2018-14360
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16
9.8
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
NE
Neomutt · Neomutt
before 20180716 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14360
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14360
Patch
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6296f7153f0c9d5e5cd3aaf08f9731e56621bdd3
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
Release Notes
https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
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