🛡️ CVE-2024-49394 on Debian — mutt

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-49394 as tracked by Debian, for the package mutt. The fix is available in version 20241002+dfsg-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49394 is classified as CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. A signature is not checked correctly, so forged or modified content is accepted as genuine.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49394 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • mutt
  • neomutt (fixed in 20241002+dfsg-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 November 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-49394 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-11-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mutt — —
neomutt — 20241002+dfsg-1

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