CVE-2026-103010
7.8 HIGHPublished 2026-10-08 · Updated 2026-10-08
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Progressive Robot hMailServer's legacy Blowfish decryption routine that allows a local user to write beyond a 255-byte heap buffer, potentially leading to service crashes or code execution with LocalSystem privileges.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation is moderately difficult as it requires a local interactive user to pass a long hexadecimal string to the unauthenticated COM method Utilities.BlowfishDecrypt, but the vulnerability is remotely exploitable through local access and could be chained with other local privilege escalation techniques.
- Blast radius
- The impact is significant since the hMailServer service runs as LocalSystem by default, meaning successful exploitation could lead to full system compromise with elevated privileges.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Upgrade to hMailServer version 6.4.0 or later to address this vulnerability.
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NVD description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the legacy Blowfish decryption routine (BlowFishEncryptor::DecryptFromString) in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.3 on Windows allows a local interactive user with no hMailServer credentials to write bytes of their choosing past the end of a 255-byte heap buffer in the hMailServer service process, which runs as LocalSystem by default. The user does this by passing a long hexadecimal string to the COM method Utilities.BlowfishDecrypt, which checked no authentication. The routine converted hexadecimal input of any length into a fixed 255-byte buffer before decrypting it in place. The result is a denial of service (service crash), and possibly code execution with the privileges of the service account.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-122
All references
Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.
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