CVE-2026-45711

MEDIUM

Mailpit: Path traversal & arbitrary file write in mailpit dump --http via attacker-controlled message IDs

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.0, the mailpit dump --http <base-url> <out-dir> sub-command downloads every message from a remote Mailpit instance and writes each one as <id>.eml inside the user-supplied output directory. The message ID field is taken verbatim from the JSON response of the remote server and concatenated into the output path with path.Join, which silently normalizes `..` segments. A malicious HTTP server impersonating Mailpit can therefore make mailpit dump write attacker-controlled bytes to any path the running user can write, fully outside the intended output directory. Version 1.30.0 contains a patch.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 23.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22 CWE-829
Status published
Products (1)
axllent/mailpit < 1.30.0 (2 CPE variants)
Published Jul 20, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 20, 2026