CVE-2018-14362 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8