CVE-2025-14874Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.60%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 51% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- RHBZ#2418133 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATexploit
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)exploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 7.0.11
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Developer Hub 1
All versions: affected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.webjars.npm:nodemailerGHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)
- npmnodemailerGHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
References
References5
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2418133 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATexploit
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-204250 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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