Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-114490
Go to dashboardhMailServer 6.3.4 through 6.3.6 has an authorization flaw in its COM administration API. A serveradmin account limited to a list of domains can act as the whole-server administrator, reading and changing every domain's accounts and mail and creating new server admins.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Windows hMailServer 6.3.4 through 6.3.6 servers, mainly multi-tenant or hosting setups, where an admin account was given serveradmin with a list of domains (or domainadmin with a list that omits its own domain). Such an account can sign in over COM (Control Panel or a local script) as the full server administrator. Skip if you have no scoped admin roles, only serveradmin with no list, or run Linux builds or versions before 6.3.4.
| Product | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| hMailServer | vendor | >= 6.3.4, <= 6.3.6 | 6.3.7 |
6.3.4-6.3.6 (Windows only; Linux builds have no COM API)6.3.7 (released 17 Oct 2026); it applies from the account's next sign-inEach row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
Incorrect authorization in the COM administration API of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.3.4 through 6.3.6 allows an account assigned the serveradmin role with a list of domains - a credential an administrator may create meaning to confine it to those domains - to act as the whole-server administrator over COM. Administrator roles are meant to confine such a credential to the domains its list names, and the REST API did not take it for the server administrator, but the COM API's server-administrator check read the administer_server permission as the whole server whatever list the grant carried. So the credential signed in through the Control Panel, or through a script run on the server, as the server administrator of every domain: it could read and change every domain's accounts and mail, rename any domain, map a domain alias onto any, write the server's settings and secrets, and create further server-administrator accounts. The COM API's domain-administrator check, asked with no domain, likewise let an account assigned the domainadmin role with a list of domains that leaves out the account's own domain administer that domain's ordinary accounts over COM. An account holding serveradmin with no list is the server administrator by design and is unaffected, as are the help desk, auditor and custom roles.
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