In neomutt and mutt, the To and Cc email headers are not validated by cryptographic signing which allows an attacker that intercepts a message to change their value and include himself as a one of the recipients to compromise message confidentiality.
CVE-2024-49393
Score 7.4 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-11-12. NVD baseline CVSS 5.9; sources differ by 1.5.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.9
- EG Score
- 7.4(medium)
- EG Risk
- 33(Track)EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity74% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 26%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 12, 2024
Last Modified
June 26, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Jun 26, 2026Protect more header fields
Patch available: neomutt/neomutt 20241002 (PR #4227 merged 2024-05-08)
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227ncrypt/crypt_gpgme.c: Show encryption information
Patch available: neomutt/neomutt 20241002 (PR #4221 merged 2024-05-08)
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221Should To and Cc header fields be protected? · Issue #4223 · neomutt/neomutt · GitHub
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/42232325317 – (CVE-2024-49393) CVE-2024-49393 mutt: neomutt: To and Cc email header fields are not protected by cryptographic signing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325317Vendor Advisories for CVE-2024-49393(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | neomutt (20231103+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ noble | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(8 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | 2.0.5-4.1 ... 2.4.1-1 (18 versions) | — | — |
| neomutt | 20201127+dfsg.1-1.2 ... 20260616+dfsg-1 (34 versions) | — | — |
Debian:12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | 2.2.12-0.1 ... 2.4.1-1 (8 versions) | — | — |
| neomutt | 20220429+dfsg1-4.1 ... 20260616+dfsg-1 (28 versions) | — | — |
Debian:13(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | 2.2.13-1, 2.2.13-1+deb13u1, 2.3.2-1, 2.4.0-1, 2.4.1-1 | — | — |
| neomutt | — | 20241002+dfsg-1 | — |
Debian:14(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | 2.2.13-1, 2.3.2-1, 2.4.0-1, 2.4.1-1 | — | — |
| neomutt | — | 20241002+dfsg-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
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All Vendor Advisories
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