Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in hMailServer
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Progressive Robot Ltd | hMailServer | unaffected |
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| Progressive Robot | Hmailserver |
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Vendor Solution
Upgrade to hMailServer 6.3.6, which finds where the name becomes short enough and cuts it once. Until then, turn SPF checking off, or accept the bounded delay.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.387% probability within 30 days)
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ssvc
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| First Time appeared |
Progressive Robot
Progressive Robot hmailserver |
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| Vendors & Products |
Progressive Robot
Progressive Robot hmailserver |
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| Description | Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the SPF macro expansion of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to consume worker-thread time by publishing a crafted SPF record. RFC 7208 section 7.1 requires a name too long to look up to lose whole labels from the left; the server did this by removing one label at a time and copying the rest of the name each time, so the work grew with the square of the expansion. An attacker who publishes an SPF record for a domain they control, with a mechanism whose domain-spec expands through macros to a name far longer than 253 characters, makes the SPF check of a message from that domain take several seconds. The expansion is bounded by SPF's own per-term and per-macro limits, so the loss of availability is partial. | |
| Title | Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in hMailServer | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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