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CVE-2018-14357
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands…
Critical9.8EPSS 5.0%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with an automatic subscription.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- RHSA-2018:2526 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d (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/e52393740334443ae0206cab2d7caef381646725 (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
- USN-3719-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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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