Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header (CVE-2025-14874)
Published Last modified Sources: CVE.org, OSV
What is affected, what to do
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.
An exploit is publicly available. Update Nodemailer to version 7.0.11.
- Affected
- Nodemailer
lt *..7.0.11
- Nodemailer
- Fixed in
- Nodemailer
7.0.11
- Nodemailer
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Metrics
7.5
Priority
XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.
Source: NVD, CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v3
Severity High on the scale from 0 to 10.
Source: CVE.org, OSV
0.6 %
EPSS score
Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 48.5
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- Severity
- High
Priority (0–325)
The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?
Read in glossary- 69.15 Methodology
Exploit maturity
An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.
Read in glossary- PoC (publicly reported)
XIEM Effective CVSS
XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.
Read in glossary- 7.5 Methodology
CVSS v3
CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.
Read in glossary- 7.5
EPSS score
The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.
Read in glossary- 0.6 %
- Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
EPSS percentile
The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.
Read in glossary- 48.5
- High — this CVE ranks above the median of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 36%).
KEV status
The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.
Read in glossary- —
- Published
CWE
CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.
Read in glossary- CWE-703
Detection rules
No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.
Classification under NIS2 and CRA
Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.
NIS2
NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.
Read in glossary- High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
CRA
The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.
Read in glossary- From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.
Read in glossary- Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.
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.
Source: cvelistv5, NVD (NIST), OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), CVE.org (MITRE)
Affected products
The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.
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| nodemailer | nodemailer |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Developer Hub 1 |
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| redhat | advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes |
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| redhat | ceph_storage |
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| redhat | developer_hub |
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Vendors and products
Weakness classes (CWE)
CWE-703Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Pillar
The product does not properly anticipate or handle exceptional conditions that rarely occur during normal operation of the product.
Entry at MITRE CWE-703
Public exploit references
Publicly reported proof-of-concepts, exploit modules and detection templates for this vulnerability. NEOSEC links to the original sources only and does not provide any exploit code.
| Reference tagged as exploit | bugzilla.redhat.com (opens in a new tab) | PoC (publicly reported)reported, not verified | — |
| Reference tagged as exploit | github.com (opens in a new tab) | PoC (publicly reported)reported, not verified | — |
References & sources
- github.comnodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98vweb, Exploit, Vendor advisory
- NVD (NIST)vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874advisory
- github.comnodemailer/nodemailer/commit/6218b8dfweb
- github.comnodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b683…web, Patch
- access.redhat.comsecurity/cve/CVE-2025-14874web, Vulnerability database, x_refsource_REDHAT, Third-party advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.comRHBZ#2418133web, Issue tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT, Exploit, Issue tracking, Third-party advisory
- github.comnodemailer/nodemailerpackage, Product
Changes to this CVE
Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).
Record modifiedRed Hat
Show 16 original changes
Individual changes of this event as published by NVD Type Action Before After Affected versions (publisher) added —Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2025/14xxx/CVE-2025-14874.json">CVE-2025-14874</a>Reference added —https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874Reference added —https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133Reference added —https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailerReference added —https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150Reference added —https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98vReference removed https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874—Reference removed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133—Reference removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer—Reference removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150—Reference removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v—Reference type removed https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 Types: Third Party Advisory—Reference type removed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 Types: Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory—Reference type removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer Types: Product—Reference type removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150 Types: Patch—Reference type removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v Types: Exploit, Vendor Advisory—Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com
Record modifiedCISA ADP
Show 6 original changes
Individual changes of this event as published by NVD Type Action Before After Reference added —https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133Reference added —https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98vReference removed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133—Reference removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v—Reference type removed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 Types: Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory—Reference type removed https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v Types: Exploit, Vendor Advisory—Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
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