CVE-2024-49394

Published: Nov 12, 2024Modified: Jun 26, 2026

5.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4

Source: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

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.

Affected (4)

Products: Mutt: Mutt · Neomutt: Neomutt · Redhat: Enterprise Linux

1 product

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mutt Mutt	All versions
Neomutt Neomutt	All versions

Configuration B

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Redhat Enterprise Linux	Version 8.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux	Version 9.0

Related CWEs

CWE-347

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

References (5)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49394

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325330

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4226

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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