CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107578

MediumCVSS 6.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.07%

0th percentile - higher than 0% of all known CVEs

Summary

Improper link resolution and external control of file paths in the administrative command-line operations of hMailServer.exe in hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allow a local attacker who already runs code as the low-privilege service account to escalate privilege. On Windows, operations run with administrator rights by the installer, DBSetup, the Control Panel or an administrator wrote log entries and crash records into the log folder, created, deleted and changed the permissions of the self-signed certificate and private key in the data folder, and rewrote message files in the data folder, all by path in folders the service account can modify, following junctions and mount points.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker controlling the service account can gain the administrator's (Windows) or root's (Linux) privileges when such an operation is run. This leads to full system compromise and the ability to perform arbitrary actions with the highest privileges.

Recommendation

Update hMailServer to a version later than 6.3.5 that fixes link resolution and file path control. Until then, consider restricting the service account's privileges and monitoring for unusual administrative operations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Improper link resolution and external control of file paths in the administrative command-line operations of hMailServer.exe in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allow a local attacker who already runs code as the low-privilege service account to escalate privilege. On Windows, operations run with administrator rights by the installer, DBSetup, the Control Panel or an administrator wrote log entries and crash records into the log folder, created, deleted and changed the permissions of the self-signed certificate and private key in the data folder, and rewrote message files in the data folder, all by path in folders the service account (NT SERVICE\hMailServer, the default for new installations since 6.3.4) can modify, following junctions and mount points; and the store-maintenance operations reached files by names taken from the database, which the service account can write, including names outside the data folder. On Linux, the store-maintenance and object-storage operations run as root followed symbolic links the service account (the packaged hmailserver user, which owns the data folder) planted in it, so a root-run operation read, wrote or removed the link's target as root. A local attacker controlling the service account can thereby gain the administrator's (Windows) or root's (Linux) privileges when such an operation is run.

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