Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. imap/util.c mishandles ".." directory traversal in a mailbox name.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14355
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. imap/util.c mishandles ".." directory traversal in a mailbox name.
osv:CVE-2018-14355
Complete source record
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