CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-114472

LowCVSS 3.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.6, the ACME HTTP-01 challenge responder serves only one connection at a time and waits up to five seconds for a request. A remote unauthenticated attacker can hold idle connections open, preventing the certificate authority's validation request from being answered and causing certificate issuance or renewal to fail.

Risk Assessment

Repeated validation failures can lead to the TLS certificate expiring, after which clients refuse the server's TLS. The mail service continues on its current certificate until then, but becomes unavailable to clients requiring valid TLS once it expires.

Recommendation

Upgrade hMailServer to version 6.3.7 or later, which serves up to 64 simultaneous connections. Monitor ACME certificate issuance and renewal processes for failed validations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Insufficient resource pool in the ACME HTTP-01 challenge responder of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a certificate issuance or renewal to fail. When the server obtains or renews a TLS certificate over ACME it runs an HTTP-01 challenge responder on port 80 for the certificate authority to read the challenge token; the responder served one connection at a time, accepting a socket, waiting up to five seconds to receive a request, answering it, and only then accepting the next. A client that connected and sent nothing held the single worker for the whole timeout, so enough idle connections during a validation keep the certificate authority's own request from being answered in time and the validation fails. Sustained across a certificate's renewals this leads to the certificate expiring, after which clients refuse the server's TLS; the mail service itself continues on its current certificate until then. No authentication is required to connect to the responder. Version 6.3.7 serves up to 64 connections at once and closes a connection past that, so that where a handful of idle connections, one after another, sufficed before, a client must keep 64 idle connections open at once throughout a validation to have the certificate authority's connection closed.

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