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FKIE_CVE-2024-49395

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-12 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-26 02:16
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
In mutt and neomutt, PGP encryption does not use the --hidden-recipient mode which may leak the Bcc email header field by inferring from the recipients info.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49395Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325332Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/4223#issuecomment-2040209956
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4221
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4227
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mutt mutt -
neomutt neomutt -
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
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