Progressive Robot hMailServer up to 6.3.7 JSON reader allocation of resources

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Progressive Robot hMailServer up to 6.3.7. This affects an unknown function of the component JSON reader. Executing a manipulation can lead to allocation of resources. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-126623. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Progressive Robot hMailServer up to 6.3.7. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component JSON reader. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the JSON reader of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.6 and 6.3.7 allows a remote attacker to hold the server's mail delivery threads or its REST API's worker threads, making mail delivery, the REST API and the webmail unavailable. 6.3.6 fixed CVE-2026-107574, in which reading a JSON object searched the member names already read for each new name, by keeping the names in a hash set; the set uses the standard library's hash, which takes no secret, so member names chosen to fall in one bucket of it still cost time growing with the square of their number. Against the released reader, one such object of 16 MB took about 5 seconds to read in the Linux build, and one of under 6 MB about 23 seconds in the Windows build, where objects of the same sizes with other names took under a tenth of a second. A remote unauthenticated attacker reaches the reader by mailing such an object 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, so a stream of such reports stops all delivery for as long as it continues. 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 through the webmail's routes granted 16 MB, and by an application's API key through the send API. Each such request holds one of the REST API's four worker threads, in the process that also serves SMTP, IMAP and POP3.

The advisory is available at gitlab.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-126623 since 11/11/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Mail Server Software

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• Progressive Robot

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• hMailServer

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• 6.3.0
• 6.3.1
• 6.3.2
• 6.3.3
• 6.3.4
• 6.3.5
• 6.3.6
• 6.3.7

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