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node-nodemailer — security advisory
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.
- Products
- node-nodemailer
- Affected versions
- 6.10.0+~6.4.17-1, 6.3.0-2, 6.3.1-1, 6.4.0-1, 6.4.1-1, 6.4.17-3, 6.4.2-1, 6.4.5-1, 6.7.0-1, 6.7.0-2, 6.7.1+~6.4.4-1, 6.9.4+~6.4.9-2, 6.9.4+~6.4.9-3ubuntu1, 6.9.4+~6.4.9-4, 7.0.10+~7.0.2-1, 7.0.12+~7.0.5-1, 7.0.5+~7.0.1-1, 7.0.9+~7.0.2-2, 8.0.4+~7.0.11-1, 8.0.4+~7.0.11-2, 9.0.0+~8.0.1-1, 9.0.3+~8.0.1-1, 9.0.5+~8.0.1-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-14874
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-14874
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Complete source record
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