CVE-2025-14874
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Fixed | 7.0.12+~7.0.5-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 7.0.12+~7.0.5-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | nodemailer | <7.0.11 | 7.0.11 |
References
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-14874
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.