ghsa-46j5-6fg5-4gv3
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-12-18 09:30
Modified
2025-12-18 22:43
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Nodemailer is vulnerable to DoS through Uncontrolled Recursion
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "nodemailer"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.0.11"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-14874"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-674",
      "CWE-703"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-12-18T22:43:39Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-12-18T09:15:44Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3",
  "modified": "2025-12-18T22:43:39Z",
  "published": "2025-12-18T09:30:30Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Nodemailer is vulnerable to DoS through Uncontrolled Recursion"
}


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