CVE-2023-4874 - Null pointer dereference

Routine

Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: September 9, 2023

Updated: August 29, 2024

Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

CVSS v2-

CVSS v36.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/a4752eb0ae0a521eec02e59e51ae5daedf74fda0.patch

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/452ee330e094bfc7c9a68555e5152b1826534555.patch

Affected Vendors

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Null pointer dereference

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v25

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v37.5

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)

T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution

T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

PCI DSS v3.2.1-6.5.2 - Buffer Overflows

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application