Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in nodemailer - CVE-2025-14874

 

Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in nodemailer - CVE-2025-14874

Published: November 28, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU118838
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-14874
CWE-ID: CWE-703
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect parsing of nested group structures. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

nodemailer

How to mitigate CVE-2025-14874

Install updates from vendor's website.

nodemailer - update to 7.0.11

External References

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