CVE-2025-14874
Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
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.
| CWE | CWE-703 |
| Vendor | nodemailer |
| Product | nodemailer |
| Published | Dec 18, 2025 |
| Last Updated | Jan 8, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Affected Versions
nodemailer / nodemailer
0 < 7.0.11
Red Hat / Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
All versions affected Red Hat / Red Hat Developer Hub
All versions affected References
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 github.com: https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer github.com: https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150 github.com: https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank uko3211 for reporting this issue.