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CVE-2026-103010

7.8 HIGH

Published 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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