Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-1268 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mutt

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
mutt
nessus
NVD
Published: 2007-03-06
Updated: 2018-10-16

Summary

Mutt 1.5.13 and earlier does not properly use the --status-fd argument when invoking GnuPG, which prevents Mutt from visually distinguishing between signed and unsigned portions of OpenPGP messages with multiple components, which allows remote attackers to forge the contents of a message without detection.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mutt
14

Nessus

  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-432-1.NASL
    descriptionGerardo Richarte from Core Security Technologies discovered that when gnupg is used without --status-fd, there is no way to distinguish initial unsigned messages from a following signed message. An attacker could inject an unsigned message, which could fool the user into thinking the message was entirely signed by the original sender. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id28026
    published2007-11-10
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28026
    titleUbuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : gnupg vulnerability (USN-432-1)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRAKE_MDKSA-2007-059.NASL
    descriptionGnuPG prior to 1.4.7 and GPGME prior to 1.1.4, when run from the command line, did not visually distinguish signed and unsigned portions of OpenPGP messages with multiple components. This could allow a remote attacker to forge the contents of an email message without detection. GnuPG 1.4.7 is being provided with this update and GPGME has been patched on Mandriva 2007.0 to provide better visual notification on these types of forgeries.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id24809
    published2007-03-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24809
    titleMandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2007:059)

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