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SCA: security update for github.com/axllent/mailpit (GHSA-qx5x-85p8-vg4j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 442156

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2026-45711)

Solution

Update the github.com/axllent/mailpit library and its related packages to version 1.30.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qx5x-85p8-vg4j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 442156

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 7/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.2

Percentile: 96.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45711

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-45711