Vulnerability in nodemailer
AI summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-14874 has been found in nodemailer.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like data.group over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade nodemailer to 7.0.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "nodemailer CVE-2025-14874" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-14874 (nodemailer) — CWE-703 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Attack surface: data.group
Patched: 7.0.11 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-703) exists in nodemailer. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via data.group without authentication.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nodemailer. Attack surface: data.group.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 7.0.11.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'nodemailer' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'nodemailer' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
nodemailerを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade nodemailer to 7.0.11ステージング環境で 7.0.11 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Package | Affected → Fixed | |
|---|---|---|
| npmnodemailer |
< 7.0.11→ 7.0.11 |
7.0.11 |
| mavenorg.webjars.npm:nodemailer |
All versions→ Not listed |
Not listed |
| nodemailernodemailer |
< 7.0.11→ 7.0.11 |
7.0.11 |
| Red HatRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | — | Not listed |
| Red HatRed Hat Ceph Storage 8 | — | Not listed |
| Red HatRed Hat Developer Hub 1 | — | Not listed |
Fix status by distribution
Records published by each distribution for this CVE. Fixed versions differ by release; check each link.
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-14874 node-nodemailer Fix available
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-14874 node-nodemailer No fixed version in this record
Original description The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory secalert@redhat.com
- advisory github.com
- exploit github.com
- exploit bugzilla.redhat.com
- patch secalert@redhat.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web secalert@redhat.com
- web access.redhat.com