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CVE-2026-26312

Stalwart Mail Server has Out-of-Memory Denial of Service via Malformed Nested MIME Messages

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.15.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Stalwart is a mail and collaboration server. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Stalwart Mail Server versions 0.13.0 through 0.15.4 where accessing a specially crafted email containing malformed nested `message/rfc822` MIME parts via IMAP or JMAP causes excessive CPU and memory consumption, potentially leading to an out-of-memory condition and server crash. The malformed structure causes the `mail-parser` crate to produce cyclical references in its parsed representation, which Stalwart then follows indefinitely. Version 0.15.5 contains a patch.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • stalwartlabs stalwart

    From 0.13.0 · fixed in 0.15.5

References 1

GitHub · stalwartlabs/stalwart