CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107576

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.43%

35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs

Summary

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the inbound DKIM and ARC signature verification of hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make mail services unavailable by sending a message. Building the canonical header and choosing the header fields named in a signature's h= tag took time growing with the square of the message's header. A message with many header fields or a field folded over many lines, with a DKIM-Signature for a domain the attacker controls, keeps a worker thread busy for tens of seconds per signature; up to ten signatures are evaluated per message by each of the DKIM and DMARC tests.

Risk Assessment

The attack can cause prolonged unavailability of mail services, impacting organizational continuity and potentially enabling DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Update hMailServer to a patched version that addresses the algorithmic complexity issue, or apply a workaround to limit the number of evaluated signatures.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the inbound DKIM and ARC signature verification of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the mail services unavailable by sending a message. Building the canonical header and choosing the header fields named in a signature's h= tag took time growing with the square of the message's header: the 'simple' canonicalisation prepended each continuation line of a folded field to the lines already gathered, and both canonicalisations searched the gathered fields from the bottom for each h= name and erased the match from the middle of the list. A message whose header holds very many fields, or a field folded over very many lines, with a DKIM-Signature the attacker signs for a domain they control, keeps a worker thread busy for tens of seconds per signature; up to ten signatures are evaluated per message by each of the DKIM and DMARC tests, on the threads that serve delivery and SMTP.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS