GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5
go-mail has insufficient address encoding when passing mail addresses to the SMTP client
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/wneessen/go-mail | < 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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]> [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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/security/advisories/GHSA-wpwj-69cm-q9c5
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59937
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/issues/495
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/pull/496
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail/commit/42e92cfe027be04aff72921adb0f72f11d517479
- https://github.com/wneessen/go-mail
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3988