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    CVE-2011-1429

    Mutt does not verify that the smtps server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL SMTP server via an arbitrary certificate, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3766.

    Published:Mar 8, 2011
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Mar 16, 2011
    EPSS Score:0.00553
    CVSS Score:5.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Mutt
    Product
    Mutt
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-43864 (CVSS 2.5) — mutt before 2.3.2 has a show_sig_summary NULL pointer dereference.…
    CVE-2026-43863 (CVSS 3.7) — mutt before 2.3.2 has an infinite loop in data_object_to_stream in crypt-gpgme.c.…
    CVE-2026-43862 (CVSS 3.7) — In mutt before 2.3.2, the imap_auth_gss security level is mishandled.…
    CVE-2026-43861 (CVSS 3.7) — mutt before 2.3.2 does not check for '\0' in url_pct_decode.…
    CVE-2026-43860 (CVSS 3.7) — mutt before 2.3.2 sometimes truncates the hash_passwd by one byte for IMAP auth_cram MD5 digest.…
    CVE-2026-43859 (CVSS 3.7) — mutt before 2.3.2 sometimes uses strfcpy instead of memcpy for the IMAP auth_cram MD5 digest.…
    CVE-2024-49394 (CVSS 5.3) — In mutt and neomutt the In-Reply-To email header field is not protected by cryptographic signing which allows …
    CVE-2024-49395 (CVSS 5.3) — In mutt and neomutt, PGP encryption does not use the --hidden-recipient mode which may leak the Bcc email head…
    CVE-2024-49393 (CVSS 6.5) — In neomutt and mutt, the To and Cc email headers are not validated by cryptographic signing which allows an at…
    CVE-2023-4874 (CVSS 4.3) — Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12…

    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061353.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061356.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061461.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/87
    http://secunia.com/advisories/44937
    http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8143
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0959.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46803
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66015
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061353.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061356.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061461.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/87
    http://secunia.com/advisories/44937
    http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8143
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0959.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46803
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66015

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High