CVE-2026-107574 (GCVE-0-2026-107574)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-08 11:46
Modified
2026-10-08 14:15
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CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Summary
Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the JSON reader of Progressive Robot hMailServer allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the mail services unavailable. Reading a JSON object kept the first of each duplicated member name by searching the members already read, so an object of N distinct member names cost O(N^2): 1 MB took 8.9 seconds and 4 MB took 300 seconds against the affected code. A remote attacker reaches the reader without an account by mailing a crafted TLS-RPT report (up to 16 MB after decompression) to a hosted domain's published report mailbox, which is read on a delivery thread; a few such reports hold every delivery thread (ten by default), so the server delivers no mail, local or outbound, for over an hour per report. A signed-in account reaches the same 16 MB body through the webmail's own REST routes, holding the REST API's own worker threads. Where no report mailbox is configured, the unauthenticated REST sign-in routes that read a JSON body are capped at 64 KB and are not affected.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Robot Ltd | hMailServer |
Version: 6.2.28 ≤ |
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