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CVE-2018-14362
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…
Critical9.8EPSS 3.7%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
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)
- 3.7% · top 10% 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 (9)
- https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2526 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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
- https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180802 [SECURITY] [DLA 1455-1] mutt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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
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- 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)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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