{"id":"CVE-2026-107574","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-107574","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:59:18.698Z","title":"Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the JSON reader of Progressive Robot hMailServer allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the mail services unavailable.","description":"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.","published":"2026-10-08T12:17:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-08T21:02:44.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cve@gitlab.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-407"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00428,"percentile":0.36771,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-09","score":0.00428,"percentile":0.35062}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-08T12:17:15.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.5","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T12:17:15.177Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.5)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.6","source":"cve@gitlab.com"},{"url":"https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/76","source":"cve@gitlab.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107574","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}