Mailpit -- SMTP DATA line reader buffers over-limit input before size enforcement

2026-07-20 · VuXML entry

Mailpit author reports: Mailpit's SMTP DATA reader enforces the configured MaxMessageSize only after bufio.Reader.ReadBytes('\n') has already buffered a complete DATA line. A remote unauthenticated SMTP client can send one line larger than the configured message-size cap and force memory allocation before Mailpit returns the expected 552 5.3.4 rejection, leaving patched versions still exposed to a single-line …

Affected versions

• mailpit < 1.30.5

By system

0 still vulnerable, 1 fixed. Where VuXML applies (FreeBSD, DragonFly, FreeBSD's derivatives) a port is vulnerable while its version is in a range; pkgsrc says itself whether it lists a CVE of this advisory; OpenBSD and MidnightBSD keep no list this site reads, so their row is only an estimate: FreeBSD's ranges applied to upstream's version.