CVE-2026-48824
Published:July 20, 2026
Updated:July 21, 2026
Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.1, the fix for GHSA-fpxj-m5q8-fphw (CVE-2026-45710, "Mailpit: Set a default 50MB p/m limit to prevent DoS via unlimited SMTP DATA and /api/v1/send body sizes") wrapped only "POST /api/v1/send" with "http.MaxBytesReader". The four other Mailpit JSON-body API endpoints "PUT /api/v1/messages" (SetReadStatus), "DELETE /api/v1/messages" (DeleteMessages), "PUT /api/v1/tags" (SetMessageTags), and "POST /api/v1/message/{id}/release" (ReleaseMessage) still call "json.NewDecoder(r.Body)" directly with no body-size cap and remain reachable unauthenticated in the default "docker run axllent/mailpit:latest" deploy. An unauthenticated remote attacker can post a multi-million-element "IDs" slice and drive RSS from ~25 MiB baseline to ~450 MiB per 16 MB request body. Repeating across multiple connections accumulates the same per-request amplification per process. Version 1.30.1 contains a patch.
Affected Packages
github.com/axllent/mailpit (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.0.0-20220730100312-c6f1c8213b0b <v1.30.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.30.1Related Resources (3)
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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)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
EPSS
Base Score:
0.51