CVE-2025-14874

7.5 HIGH

Published: December 18, 2025 Modified: January 08, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Product

https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Exploit Vendor Advisory

7 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

7.5 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.1%

25th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-703

Affected Vendors

nodemailer redhat

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