CVE-2024-49394

Mutt: neomutt: in-reply-to email header field it not protected by cryptograpic signing

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 12, 2024
Updated: Jun 26, 2026
Reserved: Oct 14, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mutt
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49394vdb-entry
RHBZ#2325330issue-tracking
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4226
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227

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