Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2024· Updated Jun 26, 2026

CVE-2024-49393

Description

In neomutt and mutt, the To and Cc email headers are not validated by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker that intercepts a message to change their value and include himself as a one of the recipients to compromise message confidentiality.

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Affected products

Mutt/Muttinferred2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)
Neomutt/Neomuttllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/neomutt&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 20241114-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49393nvdThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4223nvd
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221nvd
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227nvd

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