CVE-2018-16744: Mgetty Project Mgetty

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow for command injection if untrusted input can reach it, because popen is used.

Affected products

• Mgetty Project Mgetty: before 1.2.1 (fixed in 1.2.1)

Published 2018-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.