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CVE-2025-14874: Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-12-18 · updated 2026-10-27
• Weakness: CWE-703

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.

Affected products

• nodemailer: before 7.0.11 — fixed in 7.0.11
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: 2.0
• Red Hat Ceph Storage: 8.0
• RedHat Developer Hub: all versions
• nodemailer: before 7.0.11 — fixed in 7.0.11
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: all versions
• Red Hat Ceph Storage 8: all versions
• Red Hat Developer Hub 1: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: nodemailer 7.0.11; nodemailer 7.0.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
• https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
• https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
• https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
• https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

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