🛡️ CVE-2024-27938
🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-116 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Postal is an open source SMTP server. Postal versions less than 3.0.0 are vulnerable to SMTP Smuggling attacks which may allow incoming e-mails to be spoofed. This, in conjunction with a cooperative outgoing SMTP service, would allow for an incoming e-mail to be received by Postal addressed from a server that a user has 'authorised' to send mail on their behalf but were not the genuine author of the e-mail. Postal is not affected for sending outgoing e-mails as email is re-encoded with `` line endings when transmitted over SMTP. This issue has been addressed and users should upgrade to Postal v3.0.0 or higher. Once upgraded, Postal will only accept End of DATA sequences which are explicitly `.`. If a non-compliant sequence is detected it will be logged to the SMTP server log. There are no workarounds for this issue.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-11
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-04-10

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
postal 3.0.0

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