A flaw was found in Nodemailer.
CVE-2025-14874 · GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v · GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3 · EUVD-2025-204250 · published 18 Dec 2025
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.5 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2025-14874?
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Who is affected
- nodemailer nodemailer: 0 <7.0.11
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
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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References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
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