Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting neomutt/neomutt package, versions [,20200619)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NEOMUTTNEOMUTT-2365639
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14954  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade neomutt/neomutt to version 20200619 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. Mutt before 1.14.4 and NeoMutt before 2020-06-19 have a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, the client reads additional data (e.g., from a man-in-the-middle attacker) and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka "response injection."

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