CVE-2026-114478
Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in hMailServer
02 Description
Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in hMailServer
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 17.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Awaiting Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-22.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-21 15:12Z7 DAYS AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-21 15:12Z7 DAYS AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-10-21
- Assigning CNA
- GitLab
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-441Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')Class
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- b7ce37f4e365d3120711476ed7580d0ce68c6c392b0d63ab5db688f4d1c58068
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
Upgrade to hMailServer 6.3.7, in which a copy of mail from outside is sent on with an envelope sender, or under a host name, in the organisation of a domain its From names only when the message passed DMARC for that organisation when it arrived, a pass every copy of the message carries. Otherwise a forward, a Sieve redirect or a rule's forward keeps the envelope sender the message came with rather than an SRS or rewritten one; a copy whose identity would still be in that organisation - an empty envelope sender under a host name of it, or an envelope sender at the server's host name or in a hosted domain's organisation - is not sent to an outside address, nor is the message where an alias or a list expands to one; a managed list does not distribute the posting; and a distribution list's bounce address is not applied to it. Until then: keep SRS and the rewrite of the envelope sender on forwarding off where they are not needed; turn on the account option not to forward messages flagged as spam (ForwardAbortSpamFlagged) for accounts that forward to outside addresses, which does not hold a Sieve redirect; and set the DMARC test's score (DMARCFailureScore) at or above the spam delete threshold, so that a message that fails a published quarantine or reject policy is refused, or quarantined, on arrival. Neither of the last two holds mail in the name of a domain whose DMARC policy is none.