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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-100700 json

nodemailer before 10.0.6 Denial of Service via addressparser

published 2026-09-26 43 d ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also GHSA-v53p-9fqp-m79j , EUVD-2026-87673

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

nodemailer before 10.0.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the addressparser free-text fallback regex pattern that exhibits quadratic backtracking behavior. Attackers can supply crafted email header values with long whitespace-free runs to block the Node.js event loop for tens of seconds, causing service unavailability.

Patch / fix

  • npm nodemailer 10.0.6
  • nodemailer nodemailer 10.0.6
  • node-nodemailer Debian 14 10.0.10+~8.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-100700

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-2026-100700 updated cvss 7.5

nodemailer: nodemailer: Denial of Service via regular expression backtracking in addressparser

  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana 12.4.3-2.el10
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.6-0.3.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.1-0.6.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.10-0.7.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
41 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-v53p-9fqp-m79j 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
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
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm nodemailer
<10.0.6
10.0.6

Affected products

  • nodemailer nodemailer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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