7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-107576
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in hMailServer
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 8, 2026, 12:17 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 8, 2026, 12:17 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH ceab7361-8a18-47b1-92ba-4d7d25f6715a
CVSS 3.1 HIGH MITRE-CVE
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update Progressive Robot hMailServer to address inefficient DKIM/ARC signature verification and prevent denial of service.
  • Update Progressive Robot hMailServer to a non-vulnerable version.
  • Verify the update resolves the algorithmic complexity issue.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.6
https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/73
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 08, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-407
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/107xxx/CVE-2026-107576.json">CVE-2026-107576</a>
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.6
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/73
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