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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-126068 EUVD-2026-122860GHSA-5957-c7qm-m469

Action Mailbox: Possible signature replay in Action Mailbox Mailgun ingress

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Action Mailbox routes incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes for processing in Rails. Prior to 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2, the Action Mailbox Mailgun ingress authenticates a request with an HMAC of the timestamp and token parameters concatenated without a separator, and ActionMailbox::Ingresses::Mailgun::InboundEmailsController::Authenticator#recent? rejects only timestamps more than 2 minutes in the past. Because the signature does not fix the boundary between the two values, a captured signed request can be presented with a timestamp far in the future, which the ingress then accepts indefinitely. An attacker who obtains one signed Mailgun webhook request, but not the signing key, could submit arbitrary inbound email that Action Mailbox processes as genuine, possibly leading to forged messages attributed to the sender of the attacker's choosing. Applications that receive inbound email through the Action Mailbox Mailgun ingress are affected. This issue is fixed in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rails rails >= 8.1, < 8.1.4.1, < 8.0.5.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rails No fix yet —
Debian 13 rails No fix yet —
Debian 12 rails No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS rails No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems actionmailbox >= 8.1.0.beta1, < 8.1.4.1 8.1.4.1 GHSA-5957-c7qm-m469
RubyGems actionmailbox < 8.0.5.2 8.0.5.2 GHSA-5957-c7qm-m469

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