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Nodemailer before 10.0.2 Stack Exhaustion via Nested Recipient Arrays

Priority LOW 35CWE-674Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 3 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-674.

Summary

Nodemailer before 10.0.2 fails to properly flatten deeply nested arrays in recipient fields such as to, cc, and bcc, allowing attackers to cause stack exhaustion. Attackers can supply a deeply nested JSON recipient array that triggers recursive Array.toString() conversion, exhausting the call stack and terminating the Node.js process.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0025 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial nodemailer (nodemailer): 10.0.2Red Hat: 3 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
nodemailernodemailerbefore 10.0.210.0.2Patch availableCNA
  • nodemailer Vendornodemailer Affected before 10.0.2 Fixed in 10.0.2 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA nodemailer (nodemailer) Fixed in 10.0.2

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    nodemailer 10.0.2

    2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-64857 Nodemailer 5.0.0 through 10.0.1 TLS servername Cache ConfusionPriority LOW 26

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Developer Hub 1AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Self-service automation portal 2AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Hardened Images

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100702
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5hcf-56h7-4fvx
  3. 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

  • TI-2026-74559 ReDoS in Nodemailer SMTP AUTH mechanism detection regexes CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-64856 nodemailer before 10.0.6 Denial of Service via addressparser CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-62452 Nodemailer before 9.1.0 Denial of Service via addressparser CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-61683 Nodemailer 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 Denial of Service via Quadratic Address Parsing CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2025-13566 Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-74560 Nodemailer address parser passes illegal characters to SMTP envelope CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
See all 27 →

Sources