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oesa-2023-1660

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler

Published

2023-09-22 11:06

Modified

2026-08-06 11:06

Summary

mutt security update

Details

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12(CVE-2023-4874)

Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12(CVE-2023-4875)

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4874	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4875	ADVISORY

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CVE-2023-4874 (GCVE-0-2023-4874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-09 14:30 – Updated: 2026-07-25 04:10

Title

Undefined Behavior for Input to API in Mutt

Summary

Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-30 15:16 UTC

CWE

CWE-475 - Undefined Behavior for Input to API

Assigner

GitLab mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/452ee330…
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/a4752eb0…
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5494	x_transferred
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	x_transferred
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/26/6	x_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Mutt	Mutt	Affected: 1.5.2 , < 2.2.12 (semver)

Credits

Chenyuan Mi, Kevin McCarthy

Show details on NVD website

JSON

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CVE-2023-4875 (GCVE-0-2023-4875)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-09 14:30 – Updated: 2026-07-25 04:10

Title

Undefined Behavior for Input to API in Mutt

Summary

Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

Severity

2.2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-30 15:14 UTC

CWE

CWE-475 - Undefined Behavior for Input to API

Assigner

GitLab mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/452ee330…
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/4cc3128a…
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5494	x_transferred
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	x_transferred
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/26/6	x_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Mutt	Mutt	Affected: 1.5.2 , < 2.2.12 (semver)

Credits

Chenyuan Mi

Show details on NVD website

JSON

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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