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high 7.5

CVE-2026-90776 json

Nodemailer 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 Denial of Service via Quadratic Address Parsing

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-77000 , GHSA-prgh-xp8r-p3m5

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Nodemailer versions 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 contain a quadratic time complexity vulnerability in the addressparser component when parsing email addresses with RFC 5322 comments. Attackers can craft malicious email headers with comment-separated atoms to consume excessive CPU and block the Node.js event loop for several seconds, causing denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • npm nodemailer 10.0.5
  • nodemailer nodemailer 10.0.5
  • node-nodemailer Debian 14 10.0.10+~8.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90776

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-90776 updated cvss 7.5

nodemailer: Nodemailer: Denial of Service via crafted email headers

  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana 12.4.3-2.el10
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.3-0.8.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.1-0.3.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.10-0.2.hum1
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-prgh-xp8r-p3m5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 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
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm nodemailer
>=9.1.0, <10.0.5
10.0.5

Affected products

  • nodemailer nodemailer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of nodemailer/nodemailer published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.