Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Affecting hmailserver/hmailserver package, versions [5.6.8,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HMAILSERVERHMAILSERVER-12747961
  • published17 Sept 2025
  • disclosed21 Jul 2025
  • creditEli Samara

Introduced: 21 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-52374  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-321  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for hmailserver/hmailserver.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key via the use of hardcoded cryptographic key in Encryption.cs. A local attacker can obtain decrypted credentials to other servers from hMailAdmin.exe.config file and access other hMailServer admin consoles with configured connections.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1