Vulnerability in Nodemailer

CVE-2026-82854

Nodemailer before 8.0.4 is vulnerable to SMTP command injection through the unsanitized envelope.size parameter. When an application passes a custom envelope object with a size property containing CRLF characters to sendMail(), the value is concatenated into the SMTP MAIL FROM command (as SIZE=...) without sanitization, allowing injection of arbitrary SMTP commands such as RCPT TO to silently add attacker-controlled recipients. Exploitation requires the application to expose the envelope size to attacker-controlled input, as Nodemailer does not include size in the default auto-constructed envelope.

Vulnerability class: CRLF Injection

EPSS: 0.011 (64.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-82854?
CVE-2026-82854 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nodemailer, classified under CRLF Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-08-31.
How severe is CVE-2026-82854?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.