CVE-2001-0473: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in Mutt before 1.2.5 allows a remote malicious IMAP server to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: any version
• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0_beta only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Mutt Mutt: up to and including 1.2.5
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.