Critical severity · published Jul 17, 2018
CVE-2018-14362
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16
9.8
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. pop.c does not forbid characters that may have unsafe interaction with message-cache pathnames, as demonstrated by a '/' character.
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)3.7% · higher than 90% 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
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.6; 7.7 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.5; 7.6; 7.7 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Tus · Redhat
7.6; 7.7 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
MU
Mutt · Mutt
before 1.10.1 · source: NVD
NE
Neomutt · Neomutt
before 20180716 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14362
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14362
Release Notes
http://www.mutt.org/news.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
Patch
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e
Patch
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
Release Notes
https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
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