UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14362

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14362

    Published: 17 Jul 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-14362
    Aliases:
    USN-3719-1
    USN-3719-2
    USN-3719-3

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14362, https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e, http://www.mutt.org/news.html, https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3719-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3719-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3719-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14362, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7204-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mutt

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.2

    Affected versions

    1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1
    1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2
    1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1

    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