CVE-2024-49393

MEDIUM

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

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49393
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325317

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
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 (4)
mutt/mutt
neomutt/neomutt
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
Published Nov 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026