# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-104704"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-08T10:52:40.630Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-08T14:25:42.915Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-104704"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-104704.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-104704"
title: "Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in hMailServer"
summary: "Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.5 does not enforce TLS for outbound SMTP delivery to a mail exchanger whose DNSSEC-validated TLSA records contain no DANE-EE (usage 3) record, contrary to RFC 7672 section 2.2. The server used only DANE-EE records and treated a validated TLSA record set consisting of DANE-TA (usage 2) or otherwise unusable records as if no records were published, so delivery to such a host fell back to opportunistic TLS. An attacker with an active position on the network path between the server and the recipient's mail exchanger can suppress or break the STARTTLS negotiation and cause messages to be delivered in cleartext, where they can be read and modified."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3.6"}],"vendor":"Progressive Robot Ltd","product":"hMailServer","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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