Description
### Summary
The function processes image URLs embedded in an HTML email body without validating or restricting URI schemes. The check `!str_starts_with($myUrl, 'http')` evaluates to true for `file://` URIs, causing `file_get_contents($basedir . urldecode($myUrl))` to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem and embed them as inline MIME attachments in outgoing email.
str_starts_with('file:///etc/passwd', 'http') → **false**
!false → **true**
```php
// api/src/Mail.php
foreach($images[2] as $i => $url)
{
//$isData = false;
$basedir = $data = '';
$needTempFile = true;
$attachmentData = ['name' => '', 'type' => '', 'file' => '', 'tmp_name' => ''];
try
{
// do not change urls for absolute images (thanks to corvuscorax)
if (!str_starts_with($url, 'data:'))
{
$attachmentData['name'] = basename($url); // need to resolve all sort of url
if (($directory = dirname($url)) == '.') $directory = '';
$ext = pathinfo($attachmentData['name'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
$attachmentData['type'] = MimeMagic::ext2mime($ext);
if ( strlen($directory) > 1 && !str_ends_with($directory, '/')) { $directory .= '/'; }
..
...
....
// processURL2InlineImages function
if ( $myUrl[0]!='/' && strlen($basedir) > 1 && !str_ends_with($basedir, '/')) { $basedir .= '/'; }
if ($needTempFile && empty($attachment) && !str_starts_with($myUrl, "http"))
{
try {
$data = file_get_contents($basedir.urldecode($myUrl));
}
catch (\Throwable $e) {
_egw_log_exception($e);
}
}
}
if (str_starts_with($url, 'data:'))
```
### PoC
1. Log in as any authenticated EGroupware user with mail access and open the mail compose window.
2. Switch to HTML body mode and insert: `<img src="file:///etc/passwd">`.
3. The server executes file_get_contents('file:///etc/passwd'), writes the content to a temp file, and attaches it as an inline MIME part.
### Impact
An authenticated attacker can read arbitrary files accessible by the web server process, including /etc/passwd, application configuration files containing database credentials, private TLS keys, and environment files.
### Remediation
Enforce a strict URI scheme allowlist before calling file_get_contents(). Replace the check `!str_starts_with($myUrl, 'http')` with `if (!preg_match('#^https?://#i', $myUrl)) { continue; }` to reject `file://`, `ftp://`, `php://`, `data://`, and any other non-HTTP scheme.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | egroupware/egroupware | >= 26.0.20251208, < 26.5.20260507 | 26.5.20260507 | GHSA-c8m7-r2jv-rw63 |
| Packagist | egroupware/egroupware | < 23.1.20260601 | 23.1.20260601 | GHSA-c8m7-r2jv-rw63 |