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CVE-2026-92597 json

Nodemailer before 9.1.0 Email Domain Validation Bypass via RFC 5322 Comment

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-81297 , GHSA-cc9r-2j5m-2m83

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Nodemailer versions >= 6.9.16 and < 9.1.0 mis-parse RFC 5322 comments in email addresses: in lib/addressparser, a comment closed immediately before a non-break character causes the tokenizer to concatenate the atoms surrounding the comment instead of treating the comment as folding whitespace that terminates the domain. A recipient address such as user@good-corp.com(x)evil.com is therefore read by Nodemailer as the single domain good-corp.comevil.com (registrable domain comevil.com, which an attacker can register) and used for both the SMTP envelope (RCPT TO) and the emitted To:/From: headers, while a conformant RFC 5322 parser terminates the domain at the comment and reads good-corp.com. An application that validates the recipient domain with a strict RFC 5322 parser (without inspecting parse defects) or a naive prefix/substring allow-list and then hands the raw address to Nodemailer can be induced to deliver mail to a domain the attacker controls. Fixed in 9.1.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm nodemailer 9.1.0
  • nodemailer nodemailer 9.1.0
  • node-nodemailer Debian 14 10.0.0+~8.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-92597

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-92597 updated cvss 6.5

nodemailer: Nodemailer: Email domain validation bypass via RFC 5322 comment mis-parsing

  • Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana 12.4.3-2.el10
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.6-0.2.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.1-0.5.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.10-0.6.hum1
    not affected: component 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
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CNA 4.0 8.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/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
>=6.9.16, <9.1.0
9.1.0

Affected products

  • nodemailer nodemailer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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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.