GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5 go-mail has insufficient address encoding when passing mail addresses to the SMTP client
HIGH
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- 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
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/security/advisories/GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59937 advisory
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/issues/495 web
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/pull/496 web
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/commit/42e92cfe027be04aff72921adb0f72f11d517479 web
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail package
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3988 web