CVE detail

CVE-1999-0940 — CVE-1999-0940

Published 1999-09-27 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor mutt · Product mutt_mail_client · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0266

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

84.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Buffer overflow in mutt mail client allows remote attackers to execute commands via malformed MIME messages.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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