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Vendor Solution
Upgrade to hMailServer 6.3.6, where every one of these requests and listeners has a deadline on Linux as on Windows. Until then, on Linux: set MtaStsEnabled to 0 if outbound delivery stalls, keep ManageSieve and the metrics listener off or reachable only from trusted networks, and restart the service to release held threads.
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Missing network timeouts in the Linux builds of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.0 through 6.3.5 allow a remote attacker to hold server threads indefinitely and so stop outbound mail delivery (denial of service). The server set its socket timeouts in the form Windows takes, which Linux refuses, and its HTTPS clients read without a deadline, so a peer that accepts a connection and then sends nothing held the waiting thread for as long as the connection stayed open. The MTA-STS policy fetch, enabled by default, is made during outbound delivery to mta-sts.<recipient domain>, so anyone who can make the server deliver mail to a domain they control - for example as the envelope sender of a message that bounces - can hold delivery threads until outbound delivery stops. The same flaw affects the DANE TLSA query, the OAuth2 token request, the ACME client, and the ManageSieve and metrics listeners, which a silent client stops from serving anyone else. Windows builds are not affected. | |
| Title | Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout in hMailServer | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1088 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitLab
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-08T10:53:00.630Z
Reserved: 2026-10-01T07:04:44.784Z
Link: CVE-2026-103649
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-08T11:16:43.093
Modified: 2026-10-08T11:16:43.093
Link: CVE-2026-103649
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CWE-1088
Synchronous Access of Remote Resource without Timeout