CVE-2018-14359

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They have a buffer overflow via base64 data.

References

Advisories
More

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

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/

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

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

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

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3d9028fec8f4d08db2251096307c0bbbebce669a

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6f163e07ae68654d7ac5268cbb7565f6df79ad85

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-6280

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04131