Email misrouting via unescaped SMTP envelope addresses
Published Sep 29, 2025 · Updated Sep 29, 2025
Argument injection in Winni Neessen go-mail before 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to misroute email via crafted sender or recipient addresses. The sender and recipient accessors passed raw mail.Address.Address values into SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands instead of escaped String() output. Exploitation requires an embedding application to accept attacker-controlled mail addresses; crafted quoted local parts can alter routing or smuggle ESMTP parameters.
Summary
What happened
Argument injection in Winni Neessen go-mail before 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to misroute email via crafted sender or recipient addresses. The sender and recipient accessors passed raw mail.Address.Address values into SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands instead of escaped String() output. Exploitation requires an embedding application to accept attacker-controlled mail addresses; crafted quoted local parts can alter routing or smuggle ESMTP parameters.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-59937
- Published
- Sep 29, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 29, 2025
- Vendor
- Winni Neessen
- Product
- go-mail
- Classifications
- CWE-88
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 29, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 29, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.7.1
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- GitHub issue 495 SMTP parameter-smuggling proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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