GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5 go-mail has insufficient address encoding when passing mail addresses to the SMTP client

HIGH Published 2025-09-29 Modified 2025-11-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-59937
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/wneessen/go-mail
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-88
Reviewed
2025-09-29

Affected packages

• Go github.com/wneessen/go-mail: < 0.7.1 → fixed in 0.7.1

Description

Impact Due to incorrect handling of the `mail.Address` values when a sender- or recipient address is passed to the corresponding `MAIL FROM` or `RCPT TO` commands of the SMTP client, this could lead to a possible wrong address routing or even to ESMTP parameter smuggling. Vulnerability details Instead of making use of the `String()` method of `mail.Address`, which takes care of proper escaping and quotation of mail address, we used the `Address` value of the `mail.Address` which is the raw value when passing it to our SMTP client. This meant, if a mail address like this was set: `"[email protected]> [email protected]"@example.com` for a sender or recipient, instead of the correctly quoted/escaped address, the SMTP client would get the raw value passed which would translate into something like this being passed to the SMTP server: `RCPT TO: [email protected]@example.com>`. Since ORCTP is a valid command for the SMTP server, the mail would be routed to the wrong address. Additionally, other SMTP commands could potientially be smuggled in using this method causing unexpected behaviour. Exploitation requirements For successful exploitation of this vulnerability it is required that the user's code is allowing for arbitrary mail address input (i. e. through a web form or similar). If only static mail addresses are used (i. e. in a config file) and the mail addresses in use do not consist of quoted local parts, this should not affect your code. Patches The vulnerability has been fixed with PR #496 and the fix has been shipped with the go-mail v0.7.1 release. Issue #495 holds the full report and discussion.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-59937 go-mail is a comprehensive library for sending mails with Go. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

References