CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-40193

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.42%

36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs

Summary

maddy (a composable, all-in-one mail server) versions prior to 0.9.3 contain an LDAP injection vulnerability in the auth.ldap module. User-supplied usernames are interpolated into LDAP search filters and DN strings via strings.ReplaceAll() without any LDAP filter escaping, despite the availability of ldap.EscapeFilter(). An attacker with network access to the SMTP submission or IMAP interface can inject arbitrary LDAP filter expressions through the username field in AUTH PLAIN or LOGIN commands, enabling identity spoofing, LDAP directory enumeration, and blind extraction of LDAP attribute values.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can impersonate another user, enumerate the LDAP directory, or extract attribute values, leading to unauthorized access and data disclosure. The risk affects authentication security and directory confidentiality.

Recommendation

Upgrade maddy to version 0.9.3, which fixes this vulnerability. Until then, consider restricting network access to SMTP submission and IMAP interfaces.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

maddy is a composable, all-in-one mail server. Versions prior to 0.9.3 contain an LDAP injection vulnerability in the auth.ldap module where user-supplied usernames are interpolated into LDAP search filters and DN strings via strings.ReplaceAll() without any LDAP filter escaping, despite the go-ldap/ldap/v3 library's ldap.EscapeFilter() function being available in the same import. This affects three code paths: the Lookup() filter, the AuthPlain() DN template, and the AuthPlain() filter. An attacker with network access to the SMTP submission or IMAP interface can inject arbitrary LDAP filter expressions through the username field in AUTH PLAIN or LOGIN commands. This enables identity spoofing by manipulating filter results to authenticate as another user, LDAP directory enumeration via wildcard filters, and blind extraction of LDAP attribute values using authentication responses as a boolean oracle or via timing side-channels between the two distinct failure paths. This issue has been fixed in version 0.9.3.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS