CVE-2026-100701

Nodemailer 5.0.0 through 10.0.1 TLS servername Cache Confusion

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Sep 26, 2026
Updated
Sep 26, 2026
Reserved
Sep 26, 2026

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Description

Nodemailer versions 5.0.0 through 10.0.1 use a process-global DNS cache that is keyed only by the DNS host, while each cache entry also stores the caller-specific TLS servername. When two direct TLS/SMTPS transports (secure: true) resolve the same non-IP host with different tls.servername values, the first transport's servername is returned on the cache hit and overwrites the second transport's explicitly configured value, so Nodemailer sends the wrong SNI value and validates the peer certificate against the wrong identity. In multi-tenant services or SNI-routed SMTP gateways, an attacker who can prime the cache can cause a victim transport to connect to the attacker's TLS virtual host and accept the attacker's certificate even with rejectUnauthorized: true, disclosing the victim's SMTP credentials. Fixed in 10.0.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.0 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nodemailernodemailer
  • 5.0.0 to before 10.0.2Affected
  • 10.0.2Not affected

References

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