# CVE-2018-14362: An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-07-17 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. pop.c does not forbid characters that may have unsafe interaction with message-cache pathnames, as demonstrated by a '/' character.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6aed28b40a0410ec47d40c8c7296d8d10bae7576
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
- https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be59e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07
- http://www.mutt.org/news.html
- https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release

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