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Vulnerability details: VCID-dm5c-jfy6-jyax
Vulnerability ID VCID-dm5c-jfy6-jyax
Aliases GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3
Summary Duplicate Advisory: Nodemailer is vulnerable to DoS through Uncontrolled Recursion ## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-703 Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
generic_textual MODERATE https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
generic_textual MODERATE https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
Reference id Reference type URL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
CVE-2025-14874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
CVE-2025-14874 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3
GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14874
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No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:49:14.932361+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/nodemailer/GHSA-46j5-6fg5-4gv3.yml 38.6.0