# CVE-2025-59937: go-mail has insufficient address encoding when passing mail addresses to the SMTP client

- Also known as: GO-2025-3988, GHSA-WPWJ-69CM-Q9C5
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.7.1
- Published: 2025-09-29 · Updated: 2025-09-30

## Affected

- wneessen go-mail: fixed in 0.7.1
- github.com/wneessen/go-mail (Go): fixed in 0.7.1

## Description

go-mail is a comprehensive library for sending mails with Go. In versions 0.7.0 and below, due to incorrect handling of the mail.Address values when a sender- or recipient address is passed to the corresponding MAIL FROM or RCPT TO commands of the SMTP client, there is a possibility of wrong address routing or even ESMTP parameter smuggling. For successful exploitation, it is required that the user's code allows for arbitrary mail address input (i. e. through a web form or similar). If only static mail addresses are used (i. e. in a config file) and the mail addresses in use do not consist of quoted local parts, this should not affect users. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.1

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wneessen go-mail, github.com/wneessen/go-mail, upgrade to a fixed version (0.7.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/security/advisories/GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/issues/495
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/pull/496
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/commit/42e92cfe027be04aff72921adb0f72f11d517479

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