Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header
Impact
A flaw was found in Nodemailer. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted email address header that triggers infinite recursion in the address parser.
Source excerpt · redhatWhat to do
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Affected packages
Affected products
Vendor version evidence. Product records are separate from automatic dependency matching.
nodemailer · nodemailer
Other versions: unaffected
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| 0 to before 7.0.11 | affected |
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Other versions: affected
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Red Hat · Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
Other versions: affected
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Red Hat · Red Hat Developer Hub 1
Other versions: affected
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Original source description
A flaw was found in Nodemailer. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted email address header that triggers infinite recursion in the address parser.
References
- Security advisory access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
- Source reference bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- Source reference github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
- Patch github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
- Security advisory github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v