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CVE-2018-14360

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Neomutt: before 20180716 — fixed in 20180716

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Neomutt 20180716. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6296f7153f0c9d5e5cd3aaf08f9731e56621bdd3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
• https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277
• https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6296f7153f0c9d5e5cd3aaf08f9731e56621bdd3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html
• https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277

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