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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-46428 EUVD-2026-45982GHSA-4pj9-g833-qx53RUSTSEC-2026-0141

lettre has TLS hostname verification disabled when using Boring TLS backend

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lettre lettre >= 0.10.1, < 0.11.22 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io lettre >= 0.10.1, < 0.11.22 0.11.22 GHSA-4pj9-g833-qx53

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