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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| nodemailer | nodemailer | < 7.0.11 | 7.0.11 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | — | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 | — | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Developer Hub 1 | — | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | node-nodemailer | 7.0.12+~7.0.5-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | node-nodemailer | No fix yet | — |
Wolfi
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfi rolling | jitsucom-jitsu +2 | 2.11.0-r8 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | langfuse-3 +2 | 3.135.1-r2 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.webjars.npm:nodemailer | >= 3.0.0, <= 6.10.1 | — | GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v |
| npm | nodemailer | >= 3.0.0, < 7.0.11 | 7.0.11 | GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-0759 IBM Planning Analytics: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Mar 17, 2026
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2418133 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v