CVE-2024-49394

MEDIUM

mutt and neomutt - Cryptographic Signature Bypass via In-Reply-To Header Spoofing

Title source: llm

Description

In mutt and neomutt the In-Reply-To email header field is not protected by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker to reuse an unencrypted but signed email message to impersonate the original sender.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49394

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325330

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0026

EPSS Percentile 16.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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