CVE-2018-14357

HIGH

Description

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 an automatic subscription.

References

http://www.mutt.org/news.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/e52393740334443ae0206cab2d7caef381646725

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html

https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-07-17

Modified: 2018-10-31

Type: CWE-77

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL