CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107583

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the webmail's message view of the REST API in hMailServer 6.3.2 through 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the webmail, the administration console and the REST API unavailable by sending a message. The route that renders a received message's HTML replaced each reference to an embedded image in place, with work that grew with the square of the number of references, and wrote the image out for every reference while counting it against its size limit only once.

Risk Assessment

A message whose HTML refers to one small embedded image a very large number of times keeps one of the listener's four worker threads busy for minutes and makes it build a document of gigabytes, so a few such messages leave the HTTP listener unable to answer anybody. This results in denial of service for all users of the webmail, administration console and REST API.

Recommendation

Update hMailServer to a version later than 6.3.5 that fixes the algorithmic complexity in the message view. Until then, consider limiting the size or number of image references in HTML messages.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the webmail's message view of the REST API in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.2 through 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the webmail, the administration console and the REST API unavailable by sending a message. The route that renders a received message's HTML replaced each reference to an embedded image in place, with work that grew with the square of the number of references, and wrote the image out for every reference while counting it against its size limit only once. A message whose HTML refers to one small embedded image a very large number of times, opened in the webmail by its recipient, therefore keeps one of the listener's four worker threads busy for minutes and makes it build a document of gigabytes, so that a few such messages leave the HTTP listener unable to answer anybody.

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