# CVE-2026-43860: Other in mutt

> An attacker can bypass IMAP authentication by exploiting a hash truncation bug in the Mutt email client's CRAM-MD5 digest implementation.

- **Severity:** Low 3.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 4 May 2026
- **Updated:** 4 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-85596, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43860, GHSA-8499-whq2-xrrf, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43860

## What is CVE-2026-43860?

CVE-2026-43860 is a low-severity vulnerability in mutt, published on 4 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

mutt before 2.3.2 sometimes truncates the hash_passwd by one byte for IMAP auth_cram MD5 digest.

Weakness: CWE-193 (Off-by-one Error)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43860?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-43860?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2026-43860 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43860 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-43860 is a low-severity vulnerability in mutt, published on 4 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: mutt. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43860/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43860/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43860
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43860
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-43860

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43860/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.