CVE-2026-114478

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-114478
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-114478.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-114478
Published
2026-10-21T15:12:35Z
Modified
2026-10-22T02:48:51Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in hMailServer
Details

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 record authorises the server; or, for an empty envelope sender, an SPF record that authorises the server under its host name. The DKIM route to the same result is CVE-2026-107567.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitLab",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-441"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/114xxx/CVE-2026-114478.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "6.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "6.3.6"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandardRange"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
build-inputs-1
v6.*
v6.0.0
v6.0.0-B3
v6.0.0-B4
v6.1.0
v6.2.0
v6.2.1
v6.2.10
v6.2.11
v6.2.12
v6.2.13
v6.2.14
v6.2.15
v6.2.16
v6.2.17
v6.2.18
v6.2.19
v6.2.2
v6.2.20
v6.2.21
v6.2.22-pre1
v6.2.22-pre2
v6.2.22-pre3
v6.2.22-pre4
v6.2.22-pre5
v6.2.22-pre6
v6.2.23-alpha1
v6.2.23-alpha2
v6.2.24
v6.2.25
v6.2.26
v6.2.27
v6.2.28
v6.2.3
v6.2.4
v6.2.5
v6.2.6
v6.2.7
v6.2.8
v6.2.9
v6.3.0
v6.3.1
v6.3.2
v6.3.3
v6.3.4
v6.3.5
v6.3.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-114478.json"