CVE-2026-45713

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

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 20, 2026 at 03:01 PM UTC
Updated: October 24, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMailpit

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.0, 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. Version 1.30.0 contains a patch.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.30.0
Affected range stops below 1.30.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-fpxj-m5q8-fphw
x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.0

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-770

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