CVE-2006-5297: Mutt

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Affected products

• Mutt Mutt: up to and including 1.5.12; version 0.95.6 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.5 only; version 1.2.5.1 only; version 1.2.5.4 only; …

Published 2006-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.