CVE-2025-14874

Publication date 18 December 2025

Last updated 9 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
node-nodemailer	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14874
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150