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CVE-2025-14874

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

Published: Dec 18, 2025Updated: Jan 8, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-703
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 64.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-703

Affected Products

Red Hat
commercial·USaka redhat
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8On-premDatabase
Databases / data-warehouse-analytics
Red Hat Developer HubOn-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI
advanced cluster management for kubernetesOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
ceph storageOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
developer hubOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
nodemailer
oss-project
nodemailerLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
npm
package-ecosystem
nodemailer
OSS Libraries
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.webjars.npm:nodemailerLibrary
OSS Libraries / maven

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available
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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
access.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
github.com
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