CVE-2024-49395: Mutt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mutt Mutt: affected versions not specified
• Neomutt Neomutt: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-26.