Critical
Security advisory
This affects the package nodemailer before 6.4.16. Use of crafted recipient email addresses may result in arbitrary command flag injection in sendmail transport for sending mails.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7769
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
This affects the package nodemailer before 6.4.16. Use of crafted recipient email addresses may result in arbitrary command flag injection in sendmail transport for sending mails.
osv:CVE-2020-7769
Complete source record
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