CVE-2026-27808CWE-918

Mailpit is Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Link Check API

Medium · published February 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.29.2, the Link Check API (/api/v1/message/{ID}/link-check) is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The server performs HTTP HEAD requests to every URL found in an email without validating target hosts or filtering private/internal IP addresses. The response returns status codes and status text per link, making this a non-blind SSRF. In the default configuration (no authentication on SMTP or API), this is fully exploitable remotely with zero user interaction. This is the same class of vulnerability that was fixed in the HTML Check API (CVE-2026-23845 / GHSA-6jxm-fv7w-rw5j) and the screenshot proxy (CVE-2026-21859 / GHSA-8v65-47jx-7mfr), but the Link Check code path was not included in either fix. Version 1.29.2 fixes this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00569 · 46.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2026-02-25T23:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 FEB 23:51Z
    Mailpit is Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Link Check API
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