Nodemailer before 10.0.2 Stack Exhaustion via Nested Recipient Arrays
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
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nodemailer | nodemailer | before 10.0.2 | 10.0.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- 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 →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Developer Hub 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Self-service automation portal 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Hardened Images
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100702
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5hcf-56h7-4fvx
- 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
More nodemailer vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-100702 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-100702 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5hcf-56h7-4fvx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-100702 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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