CVE-2025-14874
Publication date 19 December 2025
Last updated 19 December 2025
Ubuntu priority
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
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| node-nodemailer | 25.10 questing |
Needs evaluation
|
| 25.04 plucky |
Needs evaluation
|
|
| 24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
|
|
| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
|
|
| 20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
5.3 · Medium
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | Low |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References
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