CRITICAL
mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability
Published Jul 17, 2018
9.8
CRITICALCVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.67%
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 2
- 16.04
Configuration 3
OR
- 8.0
- 9.0
Configuration 4
OR
- 6.0
- 7.0
- 6.0
- 7.0
- 7.6
- 7.7
- 7.5
- 7.6
- 7.7
- 7.6
- 7.7
- 6.0
- 7.0
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
mutt-5:1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6
Fixed · RHSA-2018:2526
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
mutt-5:1.5.21-28.el7_5
Fixed · RHSA-2018:2526
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
mutt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
mutt
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | mutt-5:1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6 | Fixed | RHSA-2018:2526 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | mutt-5:1.5.21-28.el7_5 | Fixed | RHSA-2018:2526 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | mutt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | mutt | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (2)
References (13)
- http://www.mutt.org/news.html x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14362 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602079 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576 x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14362
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14362
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 17, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jul 17, 2018
Link CVE-2018-14362
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a