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Vendor Solution
Upgrade to hMailServer 6.3.4. Until then, write the event handlers in VBScript, or define no OnClientValidatePassword, OnExternalAccountDownload or OnDeliveryFailed handler in JScript.
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Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:15:00 +0000
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Progressive Robot
Progressive Robot hmailserver |
Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Eval injection in the JScript event-script dispatcher in Progressive Robot Ltd's hMailServer, versions 6.0.0 through 6.3.3 on Windows, allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary JScript inside the hMailServer service process, with the privileges of the service account, via a password containing a backslash followed by an apostrophe, sent in any logon (SMTP AUTH, POP3, IMAP) that names an existing, active account. Exploitation requires a non-default configuration: event scripting enabled (off by default), the script language set to JScript (the default is VBScript), and an OnClientValidatePassword handler defined in the event script. The server wrote event values into the handler call as JScript string literals, escaping the apostrophe but not the backslash, so such a value closes the literal and the rest of it is parsed as script. The same flaw is reachable by a remote POP3 server through the message UID it returns, where an OnExternalAccountDownload handler is defined, and by a remote SMTP server through the error reply it rejects a delivery with, where an OnDeliveryFailed handler is defined. Before 6.2.25 the injected script can create any COM object, and from 6.2.25 it can with the default ScriptAllowedObjects value of '*'; WScript.Shell among them gives command execution as the service account. VBScript event scripts and the Linux builds of Progressive Robot Ltd's hMailServer are not affected. | |
| Title | Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') in hMailServer | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-95 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitLab
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-27T07:12:54.503Z
Reserved: 2026-09-26T09:56:20.241Z
Link: CVE-2026-100741
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-27T08:16:26.813
Modified: 2026-09-27T08:16:26.813
Link: CVE-2026-100741
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-27T11:42:05Z
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CWE-95
Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')