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CVE-2026-48824

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3 EPSS 0.42% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-07-20 · Last synced 2026-08-19

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Mailpit versions prior to 1.30.1 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to insufficient body size limits on several unauthenticated API endpoints, allowing attackers to exploit these endpoints to significantly increase memory usage. This can lead to resource exhaustion, impacting the availability of the Mailpit service. Organizations using Docker to deploy Mailpit should prioritize upgrading to version 1.30.1 to mitigate this risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-48824
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.3
EPSS
0.42%
Docker

Original NVD 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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