GHSA-w7v5-7g6w-87r4: MailWatch: IDOR lets any authenticated user release or delete another tenant's quarantined mail

Published Oct 28, 2026
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MailWatch for MailScanner is a web-based front-end to MailScanner. Prior to 1.2.27, any authenticated MailWatch user, including the U/user, D/domain-admin, and H/host roles, can release to inbox or permanently delete the quarantined mail of any other user or domain by supplying an arbitrary message id to mailscanner/quarantineaction.php. The action path calls quarantinelistitems() in mailscanner/functions.php, which selects from maillog by the supplied identifier without the per-role globalfilter applied by listing and read views. The action requires a valid session and CSRF token, but the caller can submit a token from the caller's own session; ownership of the requested message is never checked. Message identifiers are enumerable, allowing a low-privilege user to invoke quarantinerelease() or quarantinedelete() for other users' or domains' quarantined messages, force-delivering mail held by the quarantine or permanently deleting it. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.27.

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade MailWatch for MailScanner to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.2.27

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