# CVE-2026-67447: Mailpit: SMTP DATA line reader buffers over-limit input before size enforcement

- Also known as: GO-2026-6272, GHSA-R553-M4FV-5V97
- 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: 1.30.5
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- axllent mailpit: from 1.30.0, fixed in 1.30.5
- github.com/axllent/mailpit (Go): from 1.30.0, fixed in 1.30.5

## Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. From 1.30.0 until 1.30.5, Mailpit's internal/smtpd/smtpd.go readData() function calls bufio.Reader.ReadBytes before applying the len(data)+len(line) size check to the completed SMTP DATA line against Server.MaxSize. An unauthenticated SMTP client can send a single line larger than the configured MaxMessageSize, causing the full line to be allocated before Mailpit returns the 552 5.3.4 rejection. This post-fix gap remains after normal multi-line DATA accumulation was bounded, and concurrent oversized lines can create substantial memory pressure beyond the configured message-size cap. This issue is fixed in version 1.30.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on axllent mailpit, github.com/axllent/mailpit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.30.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/security/advisories/GHSA-r553-m4fv-5v97
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/commit/8720c6bd8281fc00d458081908f1dbef8e59a98c
- https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/tag/v1.30.5

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