{"id":"CVE-2026-107585","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in hMailServer","description":"Uncontrolled eviction in the pending sign-in tables of the REST API in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make other users' OpenID Connect, SAML and passkey sign-ins fail. The routes that start a single sign-on and hand out a passkey sign-in challenge are reached without authentication and stored pending state in bounded tables that dropped their oldest entry when full, whoever had started it. An attacker who starts sign-ins a few times a second (about a hundred a second for passkeys) pushes every other user's pending sign-in out of the table before that user's browser returns, denying single sign-on and passkey sign-in for as long as the requests continue.","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T15:11:19.477Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T19:13:35.529Z","severity":{"score":5.3,"label":"Medium","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","source":"GitLab"},"assigner":"GitLab","products":["Progressive Robot Ltd hMailServer"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Progressive Robot Ltd","product":"hMailServer","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"6.3.4","status":"affected","lessThan":"6.3.6","versionType":"semver"}],"repo":"https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver"}],"references":["https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/63","https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.6"],"weaknesses":["CWE-770"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:10:23.711Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/107xxx/CVE-2026-107585.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-107585","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-10-08T15:11:19.477Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-08T19:13:35.529Z","assignerShortName":"GitLab","assignerOrgId":"ceab7361-8a18-47b1-92ba-4d7d25f6715a","dateReserved":"2026-10-08T10:52:30.638Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in hMailServer","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"Uncontrolled eviction in the pending sign-in tables of the REST API in Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 and 6.3.5 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to make other users' OpenID Connect, SAML and passkey sign-ins fail. 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Until then: limit the rate of /portal/oidc/start, /portal/saml/start and /api/v1/passkeys/challenge per client at a reverse proxy, and keep password sign-in available for administrators."}],"credits":[{"lang":"en","value":"Found in the hMailServer project's own security review (Progressive Robot Ltd)","type":"finder"}]},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2026-10-08T19:13:25.557624Z","id":"CVE-2026-107585","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"yes"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2026-10-08T19:13:35.529Z"}}]}}}