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CVE-2026-45713: Mailpit: Unauthenticated remote memory-exhaustion DoS via unlimited SMTP DATA and /api/v1/send body sizes

May 19, 2026 (updated September 2, 2026)

The Mailpit SMTP server has a Server.MaxSize int field that controls the maximum allowed DATA payload size, but the field is never assigned anywhere outside test code, leaving it at Go’s zero value (0 ⇒ “no limit”). The same applies to the HTTP /api/v1/send endpoint, whose request body is decoded with json.NewDecoder(r.Body) and no http.MaxBytesReader. Because Mailpit’s default listeners bind [::]:1025 (SMTP) and [::]:8025 (HTTP), with no authentication required on either, a single network-reachable attacker can push an arbitrarily large message into Mailpit and watch RAM consumption spike with a ~7-10× amplification factor (raw frame → enmime envelope tree → search-text index → zstd-encoded write to SQLite). Repeating the attack — or running it concurrently from multiple connections — drives the process to OOM-kill.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-fpxj-m5q8-fphw
  • github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.0
  • github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-fpxj-m5q8-fphw
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45713

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.30.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.30.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.30.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

go/github.com/axllent/mailpit/CVE-2026-45713.yml

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