CVE-2020-14954
Mutt before 1.14.4 and NeoMutt before 2020-06-19 have a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, the client reads additional data (e.g.,
02 Description
Mutt before 1.14.4 and NeoMutt before 2020-06-19 have a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, the client reads additional data (e.g.,
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
- 2.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. 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
- 2020-06-21 16:55Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 13:00Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-21
- 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
- 57b6fa076cc9bf6820aaa701d8c46bf9386d2de5cf91e109d26805baf5e0643d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-4707https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4707
- www.mutt.orghttp://www.mutt.org/
- gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/248
- lists.mutt.orghttp://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-announce/Week-of-Mon-20200615/000023.html
- gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/c547433cdf2e79191b15c6932c57f1472bfb5ff4
- github.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases/tag/20200619
- github.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/fb013ec666759cb8a9e294347c7b4c1f597639cc
- www.debian.orgDSA-4708https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4708
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0903http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00064.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0915http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00070.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200630 [SECURITY] [DLA 2268-1] mutt security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00039.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200630 [SECURITY] [DLA 2268-2] mutt regression updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00040.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-1cb4c3697bhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K3LXFVPTLK4PNHL6MPKJNJQJ25CH7GLQ/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4403-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4403-1/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-31af2ac7fdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EFMEILCBKMZRRZDMUGWLVN4PQQ4VTAZE/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202007-57https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-57
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mutt Fixed in 1.14.4-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20200619+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mutt Fixed in 1.14.4-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20200619+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mutt Fixed in 1.14.4-1
- neomutt Fixed in 20200619+dfsg.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mutt Fixed in 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.4
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 1.9.4-3ubuntu0.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- mutt Fixed in 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2
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.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- neomutt Fixed in 20191207+dfsg.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~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.