PT-2018-2345 · Mutt+7 · Mutt+7

Jeriko One · Published 2018-07-17 · Updated 2025-01-15 · CVE-2018-14362

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mutt versions prior to 1.10.1 NeoMutt versions prior to 2018-07-16

Description The issue is related to the pop.c code in Mutt and NeoMutt email clients, where it fails to restrict "unsafe" characters, such as the / character, in message-cache pathnames. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to information through a Path Traversal attack.

Recommendations For Mutt versions prior to 1.10.1, update to version 1.10.1 or later to resolve the issue. For NeoMutt versions prior to 2018-07-16, update to a version released after 2018-07-16 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the pop.c code until a patch is available.

Fix

Path traversal

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2247

ALT-PU-2018-2274

BDU:2019-00511

CESA-2018_2526

CVE-2018-14362

DLA-1455-1

DSA-4277-1

MGASA-2018-0447

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2212-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0052-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11069-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11079-1

RHSA-2018:2526

RHSA-2018_2526

SUSE-SU-2018:2084-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2085-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2403-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1196-1

USN-3719-1

USN-3719-2

USN-3719-3

USN-7204-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linuxmint

Mutt

Neomutt

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 111

• https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e · Patch
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14362 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2403-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mutt.org/news.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14362 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14362 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11079-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2084-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3719-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-00511 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14362 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14363 · Vendor Advisory