Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with domain-confined credential
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ExploitCall GET /api/v1/metrics/history
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ExecutionBypass unprotected authorization gate
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ImpactRead server-wide 30-day traffic counters
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid, already-authenticated credential that is CONFINED to named domains - specifically a domain administrator, an account with a role holding view_configuration scoped to named domains (e.g. the auditor role given a domain list), or an API key issued for named domains - plus network reachability of the REST API endpoint GET /api/v1/metrics/history. The flaw is that the metrics route was omitted from the server's authorization gate and its handler was never given the caller, so the confinement the report routes enforce does not apply here. Limiting factors: exploitation is impossible without a provisioned confined credential (PR:L, not unauthenticated), there is no user-interaction or propagation vector, and the disclosure is bounded to aggregate server-wide traffic counters over the last 30 days - no message content, account data, or configuration beyond those counters is exposed. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate priority information-disclosure issue, not an urgent threat. The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/C:L/I:N/A:N) reflects a network-reachable but authenticated flaw with only limited confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability effect. No EPSS probability was supplied in the input, there is no CISA KEV listing (not confirmed actively exploited), and no public exploit code was identified - so all three exploitation signals point low and none contradict the modest CVSS. The SSVC-style read is: exploitation = none observed, automatable = likely no (requires a pre-provisioned confined credential and offers no propagation), technical impact = partial. The signals are consistent rather than conflicting: a genuine authorization gap (CWE-862) that leaks only aggregate, server-wide traffic counters - not messages, credentials, or account data - to a caller who already holds a valid (if domain-confined) credential. The realistic consequence is an authenticated domain administrator or auditor learning the whole server's 30-day traffic totals instead of just their own domains', a tenant-isolation / least-privilege violation of operational metadata rather than a path to compromise. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A multi-tenant hMailServer host issues a domain administrator (or an auditor-role account or API key) a credential scoped to only certain named domains. That user authenticates to the REST API and issues GET /api/v1/metrics/history, receiving the server's aggregate 30-day traffic counters across all domains rather than being refused as the report routes would refuse them. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis; exploitation is a single authenticated API call with low attack complexity (AC:L). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
hMailServer 6.2.25 through 6.3.6 exposes server-wide REST traffic counters to domain-confined authenticated users because GET /api/v1/metrics/history bypasses the authorization gate used by report routes. A domain administrator, an auditor role scoped to selected domains, or an API key limited to named domains can read 30-day aggregate traffic history for the entire server, though no message content, account data, or configuration beyond those counters is disclosed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is assessed as a low-to-moderate priority information-disclosure flaw, not an urgent threat.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to hMailServer 6.3.7, as indicated by the vendor release reference https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/releases/v6.3.7; the tracking work item is https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/-/work_items/96. If immediate upgrade is not possible, block or restrict GET /api/v1/metrics/history at a reverse proxy, WAF, or firewall so that only trusted administrative source addresses can reach it; the trade-off is that legitimate monitoring or API integrations relying on that endpoint will break. Also limit REST API exposure to management networks, and review or avoid issuing confined credentials and API keys with view_configuration or domain-administrator roles until patched; the trade-off is reduced delegated administration and remote API access. Rotate any confined API keys that may have queried the endpoint, since the disclosed data is aggregate server-wide traffic history.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
hMailServer is a Windows-based mail server whose REST API includes a metrics endpoint, GET /api/v1/metrics/history, that returns server-wide traffic counters for the last 30 days. The root cause is CWE-862 Missing Authorization: the metrics route was omitted from the server's authorization gate, and its handler was not passed the caller identity, so the domain-confinement checks enforced on report routes do not apply. The disclosed data is aggregate operational traffic history with no domain dimension, not message or account content. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:progressive_robot_ltd:hmailserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* uses a wildcard version and should be matched against the vendor advisory range 6.2.25 through 6.3.6. Although public tagging refers to authentication bypass, the assessed vector requires a valid confined credential (PR:L), so the issue is more precisely an authorization-scope bypass.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Remote REST call (AV:N, AC:L) by a user holding a domain-confined credential (PR:L, no UI); only aggregate counters leak, so C:L and I/A:N, scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (GitLab).
CVSS VectorVendor: GitLab
DescriptionCVE.org
Missing authorization in the REST metrics route of Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.2.25 through 6.3.6 allows a remote authenticated user whose credential is confined to named domains to read the server-wide traffic history. GET /api/v1/metrics/history returns the server's traffic counters over the last 30 days; those counters are server-wide and carry no domain, which is why the report routes already refuse the same counters to a credential confined to named domains. The metrics route was not among the routes the server's authorization gate refuses a confined credential and its handler was not given the caller, so a domain administrator, an account given another role that holds view_configuration in named domains (the auditor role given a domain list among them), or an API key issued for named domains could read the whole server's traffic totals rather than its own domains'. The disclosure is of aggregate operational counters, not of any message or account.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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