CVE-2025-61600

Unbounded Memory Allocation in Stalwart IMAP parser

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 2, 2025
Updated
Oct 3, 2025
Reserved
Sep 26, 2025

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Description

Stalwart is a mail and collaboration server. Versions 0.13.3 and below contain an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability in the IMAP protocol parser which allows remote attackers to exhaust server memory, potentially triggering the system's out-of-memory (OOM) killer and causing a denial of service. The CommandParser implementation enforces size limits on its dynamic buffer in most parsing states, but several state handlers omit these validation checks. This issue is fixed in version 0.13.4. A workaround for this issue is to implement rate limiting and connection monitoring at the network level, however this does not provide complete protection.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
stalwartstalwartlabs
  • < 0.13.4Affected

References

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