Vulnerability CVE-2018-14362
Published: 2018-07-17

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server eus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server aus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server tus 
MUTT -> MUTT 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.mutt.org/news.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576
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
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