CVE-2026-48824
MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.
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Severity & Metrics
5.3
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| axllent | mailpit | — | < 1.30.1 |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-770 | cna | CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling |
CVSS scores (1)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | MEDIUM | 3.1 | cna | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (2)
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-28pq-6qxg-wg5r https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-28pq-6qxg-wg5r
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.1 https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.1