# CVE-2026-45713: Mailpit: Unauthenticated remote memory-exhaustion DoS via unlimited SMTP DATA and /api/v1/send body sizes

- Also known as: GHSA-FPXJ-M5Q8-FPHW, GO-2026-5376
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.30.0
- Published: 2026-07-20 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- axllent mailpit: fixed in 1.30.0
- github.com/axllent/mailpit (Go): fixed in 1.30.0

## Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.0, the Mailpit SMTP server has a Server.MaxSize int field that controls the maximum allowed DATA payload size, but the field is never assigned anywhere outside test code, leaving it at Go's zero value (0 ⇒ "no limit"). The same applies to the HTTP /api/v1/send endpoint, whose request body is decoded with json.NewDecoder(r.Body) and no http.MaxBytesReader. Because Mailpit's default listeners bind [::]:1025 (SMTP) and [::]:8025 (HTTP), with no authentication required on either, a single network-reachable attacker can push an arbitrarily large message into Mailpit and watch RAM consumption spike with a ~7-10× amplification factor (raw frame → enmime envelope tree → search-text index → zstd-encoded write to SQLite). Repeating the attack — or running it concurrently from multiple connections — drives the process to OOM-kill. Version 1.30.0 contains a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on axllent mailpit, github.com/axllent/mailpit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.30.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-fpxj-m5q8-fphw
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.0

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