Nodemailer: Nested structured recipient arrays bypass the parser depth limit and cause stack exhaustion DoS
## Submission metadata | Field | Value | |---|---| | Ecosystem | npm | | Package | `nodemailer` | | Repository | https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer | | Tested commit | `40d52215aac65b811d7e131bc916f68605efd9d2` | | Current tested version | `10.0.1` | | Confirmed vulnerable versions | `2.7.2`, `3.0.0`, `7.0.11`, `9.1.1`, `10.0.1` | | Proposed affected range | `>= 2.7.2, <= 10.0.1` | | Patched version | 10.0.2 | ## Summary Nodemailer 10.0.1 does not safely process deeply nested arrays supplied through recipient fields such as `to`, `cc`, and `bcc`. The public `MimeNodeAddressInput` type recursively permits arrays, but `MimeNode._parseAddresses()` flattens only the outermost array. A remaining nested array is passed to `addressparser()`, whose `Tokenizer` coerces the input with `.toString()`. Native `Array.prototype.toString()` recursively processes every nested array through `join()` and `toString()` until the V8 call stack is exhausted. A valid 10,021-byte JSON recipient value containing one address wrapped in 5,000 arrays causes: ```text RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded ``` The exception occurs through the normal `sendMail()` API before the `maxRecipients` limit is evaluated. If the integrating application does not catch the synchronous exception around the complete `sendMail()` invocation, the Node.js worker or server process terminates. No SMTP server, remote host, large attachment, or successful email delivery is required. This is distinct from GHSA-rcmh-
GHSA-8vvx-rff5-p5rq
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Source reference: osv:GHSA-8vvx-rff5-p5rq
nodemailer
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- 10.0.2
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"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
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"purl": "pkg:npm/nodemailer",
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"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-8vvx-rff5-p5rq/GHSA-8vvx-rff5-p5rq.json"
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]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-100702
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- Event
- #31155 · Revision 1
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