CVE-2024-49393 (GCVE-0-2024-49393)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-12 01:55
Modified
2025-07-16 11:46
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Summary
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.
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