CVE-2025-14874 (GCVE-0-2025-14874)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-18 08:40
Modified
2025-12-18 14:32
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
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.
References
Impacted products
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Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2     cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
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