High severity · published Dec 18, 2025
CVE-2025-14874
Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub 1 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
NO
nodemailer · nodemailer
before 7.0.11 · source: vendor, NVD
AC
Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes · Redhat
2.0 · source: NVD
CS
Ceph Storage · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
DH
Developer Hub · Redhat
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14874
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
Product
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
Patch
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
Exploit
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
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