What is CVE-2018-14363?

CVE-2018-14363 is a high-severity vulnerability in Neomutt, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2018-14363?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Neomutt

CVE-2018-14363

An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. newsrc.c does not properly restrict '/' characters that may have unsafe interaction with cache pathnames.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.022 (80.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Neomutt
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14363?: CVE-2018-14363 is a high-severity vulnerability in Neomutt, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2018-14363?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.