Bug 2570965 (CVE-2026-124016) - CVE-2026-124016 postal-mime: postal-mime: Denial of Service via crafted multipart email messages
Summary: CVE-2026-124016 postal-mime: postal-mime: Denial of Service via crafted multi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-124016
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability-draft
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-10 20:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-11 15:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-10 20:33:43 UTC
postal-mime before 4.2.1 contains an algorithmic complexity denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause excessive CPU consumption in the PostalMime.processLine() function by crafting deeply nested multipart email messages with boundary lines sharing long prefixes with open boundaries. Attackers can deliver a malicious email with nesting up to the default maxNestingDepth of 256, causing per-line parsing cost to scale as O(depth x shared prefix length) and blocking the Node.js event loop for seconds per message.


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