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Moderate severityOSV Advisory· Published Jan 18, 2026· Updated Jan 20, 2026

Mailpit has SMTP Header Injection via Regex Bypass

CVE-2026-23829

Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.28.3, Mailpit's SMTP server is vulnerable to Header Injection due to an insufficient Regular Expression used to validate RCPT TO and MAIL FROM addresses. An attacker can inject arbitrary SMTP headers (or corrupt existing ones) by including carriage return characters (\r) in the email address. This header injection occurs because the regex intended to filter control characters fails to exclude \r and \n when used inside a character class. Version 1.28.3 fixes this issue.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/axllent/mailpitGo
< 1.28.31.28.3

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