Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49395

Medium

Published: 12 November 2024

Published
12 November 2024
Modified
14 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0015 34.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49395 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Metadata (CWE-1230) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Email Addresses (T1589.002); ranked at the 34.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-1230NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1589.002 Email Addresses Reconnaissance
Adversaries may gather email addresses that can be used during targeting.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability leaks Bcc email header fields via PGP cryptographic info, enabling adversaries to infer additional victim email addresses for reconnaissance.

Affected Assets

mutt
mutt
all versions
neomutt
neomutt
all versions
redhat
enterprise linux
8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AU-13 Monitoring for Information Disclosure
addresses: CWE-1230

Identifies sensitive information exposed via metadata during disclosure monitoring.

References