Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10833

lettre is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published May 19, 2026

55

Medium Risk

This Affects:

RUSTlettre
0.10.0 - 0.11.21
Fixed in 0.11.22
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TL;DR

The blocking SMTP client accumulated peer response data in a string while reading line by line, without a hard ceiling on individual line length or total response size. A malicious or defective SMTP server could force unbounded growth and parsing work against the client. The reader now enforces caps inspired by common MTA limits and fails fast with an error when they are exceeded.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

lettre is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.10.0 - 0.11.21.

How to fix this

Upgrade the lettre library to the patch version.