STAR Labs’ advisory on CVE-2026-41873 in Apache Pony Mail by Li Jiantao and Tevel Sho (disclosed 28 April 2026). Two independent bugs reach the same outcome — full admin takeover — without any authentication. In the modern Foal (Python) build, an attacker-supplied “oauth_token” URL drives a blind SSRF against the local Elasticsearch SQL endpoint, leaking the admin session cookie character-by-character (CVSS 9.1). In the legacy Lua build (now retired, no patch), a single unescaped query parameter in “email.lua” lets the attacker inject CRLF bytes into the Elasticsearch HTTP request and smuggle a second request that creates an admin account outright.
