High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. newsrc.c does not properly restrict '/' characters that may have unsafe interaction with cache pathnames.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14363
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. newsrc.c does not properly restrict '/' characters that may have unsafe interaction with cache pathnames.
osv:CVE-2018-14363
Complete source record
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