7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-126613
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in hMailServer
Description

Allocation of resources without limits in the JSON reader of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.2 through 6.3.7 allows a remote attacker to exhaust the server's memory and hold its threads, making mail delivery, the REST API and the webmail unavailable. The reader built a tree of values far larger than the text it read, copying each value into every level above it, and set no bound on the number of values, so a single JSON document of many small values, within the 16 MB the server reads, raised the service's memory by about 2 GB and held one thread for seconds to minutes. From 6.3.4 a remote unauthenticated attacker reaches the reader by mailing such a document as a TLS-RPT report, up to 16 MB once decompressed, to a hosted domain's report mailbox, where an administrator has set one; it is read on a mail delivery thread (ten by default), and those threads deliver all mail, local and outbound. From 6.3.4 it is also reached without an account through the reply to a password-protected message, with the message's link alone, where the REST API is on (it is off by default) and a public base URL for such links is set; and by any account, from 6.3.2 through the webmail's send and draft routes and from 6.3.4 through its other routes granted 16 MB and the send API; the webmail's send, draft and settings routes parsed the body again for each member read. The REST API serves every request on four worker threads, in the process that also serves SMTP, IMAP and POP3, so a few such documents at once make it unavailable and can exhaust the machine's memory and end the whole service. This is a separate defect from CVE-2026-107574, the reader's handling of duplicate member names, fixed in 6.3.6.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 11, 2026, 8:31 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 11, 2026, 8:31 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

GitLab
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-126613 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

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
Solution
Update hMailServer to patch the JSON reader vulnerability that causes memory exhaustion and service unavailability.
  • Update hMailServer to a non-vulnerable version.
  • Apply vendor-provided security patches.
  • Review JSON parsing configurations.
  • Monitor server resource utilization.

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