Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2024· Updated Jun 26, 2026

CVE-2024-49394

Description

In mutt and neomutt the In-Reply-To email header field is not protected by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker to reuse an unencrypted but signed email message to impersonate the original sender.

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Affected products

Neomutt/Neomuttinferred2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)
Mutt/Muttllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/neomutt&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 20241114-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49394nvdThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4226nvd
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221nvd
github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227nvd

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