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TI-2024-18541 Aliases CVE-2024-27938

SMTP Smuggling in Postal

Priority LOW 31CWE-116Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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 `<CR><LF>` 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 `<CR><LF>.<CR><LF>`. If a non-compliant sequence is detected it will be logged to the SMTP server log. There are no workarounds for this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00664 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed postal (postalserver): 3.0.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
postalserverpostalbefore 3.0.03.0.0Patch availableCNA
  • postal Vendorpostalserver Affected before 3.0.0 Fixed in 3.0.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:postalserver:postal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 3.0.0Vulnerablepostalserver
  • cpe:2.3:a:postalserver:postal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 3.0.0 Vulnerable ·postalserver

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA postal (postalserver) Fixed in 3.0.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-27938
  2. 2026-10-05 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

  • TI-2026-20638 Postal has HTML injection / XSS in message view CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1

Sources

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