CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107569

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.37%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in hMailServer (versions 6.0.0 through 6.3.6) involves unchecked input for the X-hMailServer-LoopCount header, which is used to bound forwarding and auto-reply loops. An attacker can set a negative value (or one that overflows to negative), bypassing the limit and causing a message to loop up to about two billion times, filling the queue and disk and stopping mail service. Additionally, the Sieve notify action had no limit, and the counter could be reset via Sieve editheader or a rule Set header action.

Risk Assessment

This allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform a denial-of-service attack, potentially halting the mail service and causing mail unavailability for the entire organization.

Recommendation

Update hMailServer to a version later than 6.3.6 that includes the fix. Until then, filter or strip the X-hMailServer-LoopCount header from incoming messages and monitor queue and disk usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Unchecked input for a loop condition in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to stop the server carrying mail. The server bounds the mail it generates in response to a message - a rule forward, reply or copy, an account forward, a Sieve redirect, vacation or notify, a bounce, an out-of-office reply - by a counter it carries in the message's X-hMailServer-LoopCount header, and makes no more once the counter reaches the configured rule loop limit (5 by default); that is what ends a forwarding or auto-reply cycle in a bounded number of hops. X-hMailServer-LoopCount is an ordinary header that is not stripped from mail arriving from outside, and the server read it with a signed conversion and no validation, so a count below zero passed every test against the limit: a sender who sets X-hMailServer-LoopCount to a negative value, or on the Linux builds to a value above the 32-bit signed range that the conversion wraps to a negative one, lifts the bound, and a message that enters a generated-mail cycle then loops up to about two thousand million times, each hop a queued message and a delivery, filling the queue and disk and stopping mail service. The Sieve notify action (from 6.2.22) consulted no limit at all, and its increment of the count could overflow a signed integer; and an account could reset the counter on its own mail through a Sieve editheader of the header (from 6.2.22) or a rule Set header value action (all versions) ahead of a forward or redirect.

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