An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. imap/util.c mishandles ".." directory traversal in a mailbox…

Description

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. imap/util.c mishandles ".." directory traversal in a mailbox name.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/31eef6c766f47df8281942d19f76e35f475c781d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• USN-3719-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-4277 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180802 [SECURITY] [DLA 1455-1] mutt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/57971dba06346b2d7179294f4528b8d4427a7c5d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• GLSA-201810-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mutt.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 09:29 UTC.