What is CVE-2025-14874?

CVE-2025-14874 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nodemailer, classified under CWE-703. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-14874?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Nodemailer

CVE-2025-14874

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nodemailer — versions 0
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
Red Hat Developer Hub
Redhat Advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes — versions 2.0
Redhat Ceph_storage — versions 8.0
Redhat Developer_hub

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-703

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Product)
secalert@redhat.com (Patch)
secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14874?: CVE-2025-14874 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nodemailer, classified under CWE-703. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-14874?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.