CVE-2025-14874
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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2025-12-18 09:15:44.870000
Last modified
2026-10-27 05:16:55.207000
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