CVE-2025-14874

Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Oct 27, 2026
Reserved: Dec 18, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-703 Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
nodemailernodemailer	before 7.0.11Affected
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8Red Hat
Red Hat Developer Hub 1Red Hat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874vdb-entry
RHBZ#2418133issue-tracking
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

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