# CVE-2026-67446: Mailpit: Thumbnail generation decodes unbounded image dimensions before scaling

- Also known as: GO-2026-6359, GHSA-75MR-QW9X-3R39
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.30.4
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- axllent mailpit: fixed in 1.30.4
- github.com/axllent/mailpit (Go): fixed in 1.30.4

## Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to 1.30.4, Mailpit decodes attacker-supplied image attachments into a full raster before checking decoded dimensions, pixel count, or memory use in the GET /api/v1/message/{id}/part/{partID}/thumb endpoint. The Thumbnail handler in server/apiv1/thumbnails.go obtains attachment bytes through storage.GetAttachmentPart(), accepts image/* content, and calls imaging.Decode() with AutoOrientation before imaging.Fill() scales the image to 180 by 120 pixels. A compact image declaring very large dimensions can therefore consume disproportionately large memory and CPU, and opening the message UI can trigger the same endpoint through server/ui-src/components/message/MessageAttachments.vue. This can degrade availability when an unauthenticated client can store the crafted attachment and reach the web API. This issue is fixed in version 1.30.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on axllent mailpit, github.com/axllent/mailpit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.30.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-75mr-qw9x-3r39
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/commit/6bcb6337838b542d53c348e38c7977f569b6db35
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.4

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