ETK-2026-1965Zero's internal tracking ID, independent of the CVE number.
waiting for further signalsZero needs more public information before it can validate it.description
postal-mime 3.0.0 through 4.0.7 can spend excessive CPU time decoding email headers containing many joinable RFC 2047 encoded words. An attacker able to submit email that the application parses can block the event loop and cause denial of service.
mitigation
Upgrade postal-mime to version 4.0.8. Until upgraded, lower maxHeadersSize and parse untrusted mail in a worker that can be terminated.
fixed in 4.0.8
outcome
Contextual: an exploit technique exists, but no deterministic check could cover this one.
source signals
Public signals that triggered or updated the pipeline. These are inputs for the deltas above.
- 2026-10-18 10:08Zghsa: trigger signal, started the run
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{ "etk_id": "ETK-2026-1965", "cve_id": null, "display_id": "ETK-2026-1965", "ghsa_id": "GHSA-f2hq-32vh-53cc", "euvd_id": null, "status": "published", "anchor_state": "awaiting_cve", "title": "Quadratic header decoding denial of service in postal-mime", "summary": "postal-mime 3.0.0 through 4.0.7 can spend excessive CPU time decoding email headers containing many joinable RFC 2047 encoded words. An attacker able to submit email that the application parses can block the event loop and cause denial of service.", "mitigation": "Upgrade postal-mime to version 4.0.8. Until upgraded, lower maxHeadersSize and parse untrusted mail in a worker that can be terminated.", "vendor": "npm", "product": "npm:postal-mime", "affected": [ { "affected_notes": [], "affected_ranges": [ ">= 3.0.0, < 4.0.8" ], "ecosystem": "npm", "fixed_versions": [ "4.0.8" ], "package_name": "postal-mime", "purl": "pkg:npm/postal-mime" } ], "cwes": [ 400 ], "cvss_score": 7.5, "cvss_src": "cna_vendor", "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "epss_score": null, "epss_percentile": null, "epss_asof": null, "automation": "contextual", "check": false, "check_confidence_basis": null, "exploit": false, "pipeline_minutes": 11.507207066666666, "t0_at": null, "signals": { "trigger_signal": { "at": "2026-10-18T10:08:36+00:00", "days": -3.4022526633912036, "is_lower_bound": true, "measured_at": "2026-10-21T19:47:50.803643+00:00", "url": "https://github.com/postalsys/postal-mime/security/advisories/GHSA-f2hq-32vh-53cc" } } }
published 2026-10-18 11:45Z
last change 2026-10-21 19:22Z
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