CVE-2018-14352

high-risk
Published 2018-07-17

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. imap_quote_string in imap/util.c does not leave room for quote characters, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.

Do I need to act?

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3.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Affected Vendors

Debian Mutt Canonical Neomutt

References (20)

Release Notes http://www.mutt.org/news.html
Patch https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/e27b65b3bf8defa34db58919496056caf3850c...
Patch https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/e0131852c6059107939893016c8ff56b6e42865d
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
Release Notes https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
Release Notes http://www.mutt.org/news.html
Patch https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/e27b65b3bf8defa34db58919496056caf3850c...
Patch https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/e0131852c6059107939893016c8ff56b6e42865d
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
Release Notes https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 6/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate