CVE-2018-14361 is a critical vulnerability affecting NeoMutt versions prior to 2018-07-16, where a memory allocation failure in nntp.c for messages data does not halt program execution. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a critical severity with a network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 20180716CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:neomutt:neomutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.