CVE-2024-49393

MEDIUM

mutt and neomutt - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in To and Cc Headers

Title source: llm

Description

In neomutt and mutt, the To and Cc email headers are not validated by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker that intercepts a message to change their value and include himself as a one of the recipients to compromise message confidentiality.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325317

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4223

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49393

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 25.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-347

Status published

Products (8)

mutt/mutt

neomutt/neomutt

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0

Published Nov 12, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026