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Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in hMailServer

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Insufficient preservation of the original sender in the forwarding of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to have mail they write, naming in its From an address at a domain the server hosts, delivered to other receivers as passing that domain's DMARC policy. When the server sent on a copy of mail that came from outside - an account's forward, a mail rule's forward, a Sieve redirect, a list's copy, or an alias or list expanding to an outside address - it could give the copy an SMTP identity in the organisation of the domain the copy's From names, whatever the message's origin: with the Sender Rewriting Scheme or the rewrite of the envelope sender on forwarding enabled (both off by default), an address at the forwarding domain; for a list, its bounce address; for a message with an empty envelope sender, none, under the server's own host name; and an envelope sender the message came with at a subdomain of a hosted domain was kept. Where that identity's SPF record authorises the server, other receivers' SPF check of the copy passed for a domain aligned with the From, and DMARC passed with it, although the message had not passed DMARC when the server received it. Exploitation needs a forward, redirect, alias or list that carries the hosted domain's mail to an outside address, and one of: SRS or the envelope rewrite enabled; a list whose bounce address is in the domain's organisation; an envelope sender at a subdomain whose SPF

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CVE-2026-114478

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-114478

hMailServer

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "repo": "https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver",
    "vendor": "Progressive Robot Ltd",
    "product": "hMailServer",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.3.6"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-114478

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#49134 · Revision 1
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