CVE-2026-71244 PUBLISHED

Paperless-ngx: Mail Account Test Connection Leaks Stored IMAP/OAuth Credentials to Attacker-Controlled Host

Assigner: TuranSec
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

Paperless-ngx's MailAccountViewSet.test() action, when called with an existing account's ID and a masked password field, reuses the stored password, account_type, refresh_token, and expiration from that existing account while allowing the caller to supply a different imap_server, imap_port, and imap_security in the same request. The test connection then authenticates to the caller-specified server using the real stored credentials. A user holding only object-level change_mailaccount permission on the target account (not full admin) can redirect the test connection to an attacker-controlled IMAP host, causing the real stored IMAP password or OAuth token to be sent to that host.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor paperless-ngx
Product paperless-ngx
Versions Default: unknown
  • Version 0 is affected

Credits

  • Bobur Abdugafforov finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE