CVE-2026-26312CWE-770

Stalwart Mail Server has Out-of-Memory Denial of Service via Malformed Nested MIME Messages

Medium · published February 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Stalwart is a mail and collaboration server. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Stalwart Mail Server versions 0.13.0 through 0.15.4 where accessing a specially crafted email containing malformed nested `message/rfc822` MIME parts via IMAP or JMAP causes excessive CPU and memory consumption, potentially leading to an out-of-memory condition and server crash. The malformed structure causes the `mail-parser` crate to produce cyclical references in its parsed representation, which Stalwart then follows indefinitely. Version 0.15.5 contains a patch.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00516 · 43.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-02-19T21:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 FEB 21:05Z
    Stalwart Mail Server has Out-of-Memory Denial of Service via Malformed Nested MIME Messages
    cvelistv5