CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107579

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

26th percentile - higher than 26% of all known CVEs

Summary

hMailServer (by Progressive Robot) versions 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 have inefficient algorithmic complexity in bounce and complaint processing, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to stop mail delivery.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could send specially crafted messages that overload delivery threads, leading to denial of service and mail delivery interruptions.

Recommendation

Upgrade hMailServer to a version newer than 6.3.5 that includes a fix optimizing bounce and complaint processing.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the bounce and complaint processing of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to stop mail delivery by sending messages, when bounce processing or complaint processing is enabled or a mailing list is managed by the server (none is by default). The readers of incoming delivery status notifications (RFC 3464) and abuse feedback reports (RFC 5965) removed the blank lines at the start of the returned headers part two bytes at a time, copying the rest of the part each time, so their work grew with the square of the number of blank lines. A message shaped like such a report, whose headers part begins with a very large number of blank lines within the reader's 2 MB limit, keeps a delivery thread busy for over a minute while it is delivered, and a few such messages a minute keep every delivery thread busy.

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