CVE-2018-14358 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Mutt before version 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. This flaw occurs in imap/message.c when processing a FETCH response containing an excessively long RFC822.SIZE field. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 20180716CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:neomutt:neomutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.