CVE-2026-107577: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in hMailServer

Published Oct 8, 2026
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Updated

Inefficient algorithmic complexity and a non-terminating loop in the MIME processing of received messages in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.5 allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to make the mail services unavailable by sending a message. Removing a MIME header parameter whose value is empty and directly followed by a semicolon (for example a Content-Disposition with 'filename=a.bat; filename=;') entered a loop that never terminates, holding a worker thread at full load until the server is restarted; this is reached when the attachment blocker renames a blocked attachment or a filename is set over the REST API. Separately, decoding a header field that holds many RFC 2047 encoded words of an encoding other than base64 or quoted-printable, removing a parameter with many RFC 2231 continuations, and deleting many header fields of one name each took time growing with the square of the message, on the small thread pools that serve IMAP, SMTP and POP3 connections, delivery and the REST API.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Progressive Robot hMailServer>=6.0.0<=6.3.5

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Progressive Robot hMailServer to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.3.6
  2. Compensating control

    Lower the maximum message size to bound the quadratic MIME-processing paths.

  3. Operational

    Restart the hMailServer service to end any hung worker thread.

Event History

Oct 8, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·11:46 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·11:46 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeakness

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