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Use of Less Trusted Source in hMailServer

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Use of a less trusted source for the envelope sender in the external-account download of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to have mail they write in the name of a domain the server hosts sent on by the server with an envelope sender at that domain, so that it passes the domain's SPF and DMARC at other receivers. A message the server downloads from an external POP3 or IMAP account has no SMTP envelope of its own, and the server took the address in its From header as its envelope sender, whatever that address was. A forward or redirect of the downloaded message to an outside address then left with that address as its envelope sender, which the Sender Rewriting Scheme leaves alone for a hosted domain, so that the receiver's SPF check passed for the forged domain, aligned even under strict alignment, with no non-default setting, host name record or DMARC policy needed. An attacker needs to know a mailbox elsewhere that an account here collects and forwards to an outside address; an account holder who adds an external account of their own can collect from a server of their own, which matters where SmtpAuthenticatedSenderCheck holds signed-in senders to their own addresses.

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CVE-2026-114474

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-114474

hMailServer

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

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Prerequisites
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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-2026-114474

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#49130 · Revision 1
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