Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package neomutt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-NEOMUTT-650698
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed17 Jul 2018

Introduced: 17 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14363  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream neomutt package and not the neomutt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.