CVE-2018-14354
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-07-17 17:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 09:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-07-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2e70c5101dbff845096e9f2f7187b4c40f69d9127ad0f3be7ad8b12c7b55eb13
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:2526https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
- gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/185152818541f5cdc059cbff3f3e8b654fc27c1d
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3719-3https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4277https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
- github.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/95e80bf9ff10f68cb6443f760b85df4117cb15eb
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3719-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180802 [SECURITY] [DLA 1455-1] mutt security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201810-07https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07
- www.securityfocus.com104925http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104925
- www.mutt.orghttp://www.mutt.org/news.html
- neomutt.orghttps://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3719-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- neomutt Fixed in 20180716-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- mutt Fixed in 1.10.1-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20180716+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mutt Fixed in 1.10.1-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20180716+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mutt Fixed in 1.10.1-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20180716+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- mutt Fixed in 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mutt Fixed in 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- mutt Fixed in 1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- neomutt Fixed in 20171215+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.