CVE-2025-14874 | THREATINT

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-18 | Published 2025-12-18 | Updated 2025-12-22 | Assigner redhat

MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Product status

Default status

unaffected

Any version before 7.0.11

affected

Default status

affected

Default status

affected

Default status

affected

Timeline

2025-12-01:	Reported to Red Hat.
2025-12-01:	Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank uko3211 for reporting this issue.

References

github.com/...mailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v exploit

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 exploit

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 (RHBZ#2418133) issue-tracking

github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer

github.com/...ommit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150

github.com/...mailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

cve.org (CVE-2025-14874)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14874)

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