fkie_cve-2024-49393
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-11-12 02:15
Modified
2025-07-16 12:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49393Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325317Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mutt mutt -
neomutt neomutt -
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0


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