CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-45711

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

Path traversal vulnerability in Mailpit before version 1.30.0. The message ID field is taken verbatim from the JSON response and concatenated into the output path with path.Join, which normalizes '..' segments. A malicious server impersonating Mailpit can write attacker-controlled bytes to any path the running user can write.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system, potentially leading to privilege escalation, code execution, or data corruption.

Recommendation

Update Mailpit to version 1.30.0 or later and avoid using the dump command with untrusted servers.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.0, the mailpit dump --http <base-url> <out-dir> sub-command downloads every message from a remote Mailpit instance and writes each one as <id>.eml inside the user-supplied output directory. The message ID field is taken verbatim from the JSON response of the remote server and concatenated into the output path with path.Join, which silently normalizes `..` segments. A malicious HTTP server impersonating Mailpit can therefore make mailpit dump write attacker-controlled bytes to any path the running user can write, fully outside the intended output directory. Version 1.30.0 contains a patch.

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