CVE-2018-14354

high-risk
Published 2018-07-17

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with a manual subscription or unsubscription.

Do I need to act?

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2.3% 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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Fix available
Upgrade to: 6a147a62cf39c2a12cf2e96a8a62f378164548fa, 95e80bf9ff10f68cb6443f760b85df4117cb15eb, ed9d7727dc705754871e31cb41420f0ea956495b, 185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Mutt Canonical Neomutt

References (24)

Release Notes http://www.mutt.org/news.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104925
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
Patch https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/95e80bf9ff10f68cb6443f760b85df4117cb15...
Patch https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d
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
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104925
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
Patch https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/95e80bf9ff10f68cb6443f760b85df4117cb15...
Patch https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d
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
and 4 more references
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 5/34 · Minimal
Exposure 20/34 · Moderate