CVE-2018-14362

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    CVE-2018-14362

    Published: 17 Jul 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.mutt.org/news.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html, https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277, https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e, https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -ed9d7727dc705754871e31cb41420f0ea956495b

    Affected versions

    mutt-1-10-rel

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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