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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-14357 json

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16.

published 2018-07-17 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-6278

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.0%
EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with an automatic subscription.

Patch / fix

  • mutt mutt 1.10.1
  • neomutt neomutt 20180716
  • mutt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10.1-1
  • neomutt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 20180716+dfsg.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14357

  • mutt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.2
  • mutt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2
  • mutt Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1
  • neomutt Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 20171215+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14357

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mutt RHEL 6 5:1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6
  • mutt RHEL 7 5:1.5.21-28.el7_5

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2526

  • mutt SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 1.10.1-55.6.1
  • mutt SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA +2 more 1.5.17-42.43.1
  • mutt SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.10.1-3.3.4
  • mutt SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 1.10.1-55.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1196-1SUSE-SU-2018:2403-1SUSE-SU-2018:2085-1SUSE-SU-2018:2084-1

  • mutt openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.7-2.2
  • neomutt openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210205-3.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11069-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11079-1

  • mutt Alpine 3.8, Alpine 3.7, Alpine 3.6 +1 more 1.10.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-14357

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • neomutt Arch Linux 20180716-1

arch linux advisories AVG-740

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-14357 updated cvss 7.1

mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mutt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) mutt 1.5.21-28.el7_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) mutt 1.5.21-28.el7_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) mutt 1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) mutt 1.5.21-28.el7_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) mutt 1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) mutt 1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) mutt 1.5.21-28.el7_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) mutt 1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) mutt 1.5.21-28.el7_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2526
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mutt
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.