CVE-2018-14363 — An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-07-17T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T09:29:50.107Z

09References

• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
• github.com — https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/9bfab35522301794483f8f9ed60820bdec9be5…
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
• neomutt.org — https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release