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Mailcow Patches Critical XSS Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated Account Takeover

Summary

Mailcow patched three XSS vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in Autodiscover logs, that allow unauthenticated attackers to take over administrator accounts and exfiltrate sensitive emails. The flaws were fixed in version 2026-03b after researchers demonstrated how to chain them with Login CSRF to steal user data.

Take Action:

If you run a self-hosted Mailcow email server, update it to version 2026-03b ASAP. These vulnerabilities could let an attacker silently take over your admin account just by sending a crafted email. After updating, also check that your server is configured to only accept the X-Real-IP header from trusted internal proxies, not from the open internet.


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