6.5
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-107583
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in hMailServer
Description

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.

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 MEDIUM ceab7361-8a18-47b1-92ba-4d7d25f6715a
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM MITRE-CVE
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Update Progressive Robot hMailServer to fix the inefficient message processing that causes denial of service.
  • Update Progressive Robot hMailServer to a non-vulnerable version.
  • Avoid opening specially crafted messages.
  • Monitor server resource utilization.
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/65
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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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 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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-2026-107583.json">CVE-2026-107583</a>
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.6
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/65
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