CVE-2026-46428 PUBLISHED

lettre has TLS hostname verification disabled when using Boring TLS backend

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 20.07.2026 Updated: 21.07.2026

lettre is a a mailer library for Rust. Starting in version 0.10.1 and prior to version 0.11.22, an inverted-boolean bug in lettre's boring-tls integration silently disables TLS hostname verification for callers using the default (strict) configuration. An on-path attacker presenting any chain-valid certificate for any domain can intercept SMTP submission, including PLAIN/LOGIN credentials and message contents, against any lettre user built with the boring-tls feature. Other TLS backends (native-tls, rustls) are unaffected. Version 0.11.22 patches the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor lettre
Product lettre
Versions
  • Version >= 0.10.1, < 0.11.22 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation CWE