Mailu: Domain managers can allow themselves to spoof on other hosted domains they should not control
CVE-2026-86009 · published 16 Oct 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.2 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Mailu Mailu: < f05aeb8322e2f61096af6b089d61ba6f40587d96
How to check
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How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
Mailu is a mail server distributed as a set of Docker images. Prior to f05aeb8322e2f61096af6b089d61ba6f40587d96, domain managers can enable spoofing for hosted domains they do not control. A potentially malicious domain administrator enables spoofing for another hosted domain and can send emails that are authenticated with DKIM/SPF for domains they should not be able to. This vulnerability is addressed by f05aeb8322e2f61096af6b089d61ba6f40587d96.
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References
- github.com/Mailu/Mailu/security/advisories/GHSA-crww-m82r-2wfm
- github.com/Mailu/Mailu/issues/2686
- github.com/Mailu/Mailu/pull/4072
- github.com/Mailu/Mailu/commit/f05aeb8322e2f61096af6b089d61ba6f40587d96
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