High severity · published Oct 28, 2026
CVE-2026-85749
MailWatch: IDOR lets any authenticated user release or delete another tenant's quarantined mail
New
8.1
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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/quarantine_action.php`. The action path calls `quarantine_list_items()` in `mailscanner/functions.php`, which selects from `maillog` by the supplied identifier without the per-role `global_filter` 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 `quarantine_release()` or `quarantine_delete()` 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
MailWatch · mailwatch
< 1.2.27 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85749
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85749
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/mailwatch/MailWatch/security/advisories/GHSA-w7v5-7g6w-87r4
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/mailwatch/MailWatch/commit/bc04f25eb0cec028cbd4ded9c049cfc6f663a15f
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/mailwatch/MailWatch/releases/tag/v1.2.27
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