CVE-2025-14874

Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header

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

nodemailer · Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 · Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 · Red Hat Developer Hub

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 45th percentile

Published

2025-12-18

Updated

2026-01-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

Security advisories

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry