CVE-2025-14874 (GCVE-0-2025-14874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-18 08:40 – Updated: 2025-12-22 21:14
VLAI?
Title
Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-703 - Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nodemailer nodemailer Affected: 0 , < 7.0.11 (semver)
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Credits
Red Hat would like to thank uko3211 for reporting this issue.
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