ubuntu-cve-2024-49394
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-11-12 03:15
Modified
2026-05-20 15:12
Summary
Details

In mutt and neomutt the In-Reply-To email header field is not protected by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker to reuse an unencrypted but signed email message to impersonate the original sender.

Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "In mutt and neomutt the In-Reply-To email header field is not protected by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker to reuse an unencrypted but signed email message to impersonate the original sender.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49394",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:12:50Z",
  "published": "2024-11-12T03:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-49394"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49394"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325330"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49394"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/490#note_2209448655"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#crypt-protected-headers-read"
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      "url": "https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/13cfc6f98322eafdc30ecc4c15999d401950a1d9"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7204-1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-7204-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2024-49394"
  ]
}



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