CVE-2026-124016
Published:November 10, 2026
Updated:November 12, 2026
postal-mime before 4.2.1 contains an algorithmic complexity denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause excessive CPU consumption in the PostalMime.processLine() function by crafting deeply nested multipart email messages with boundary lines sharing long prefixes with open boundaries. Attackers can deliver a malicious email with nesting up to the default maxNestingDepth of 256, causing per-line parsing cost to scale as O(depth x shared prefix length) and blocking the Node.js event loop for seconds per message.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/postalsys/postal-mime.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.0.1 <v4.2.1 || >=v2.0.0 <v4.2.1 || >=v3.0.0 <v4.2.1 || >=v4.0.0 <v4.2.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.2.1postal-mime (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.0 <4.2.1 || >=1.0.0 <4.2.1 || >=2.0.0 <4.2.1 || >=3.0.0 <4.2.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.2.1Related ResourcesĀ (6)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
EPSS
Base Score:
0.61