GHSA-6vj9-mwq6-2f5v — Nodemailer: Process-global DNS cache reuses TLS `servername` across transports, enabling cross-tenant SMTP credential d…

Affected: npm: nodemailer

### Summary

Nodemailer's process-global DNS cache is keyed only by `host`, but each cache entry also stores the caller-specific TLS `servername`. When two direct SMTPS transports use the same DNS host with different `tls.servername` values, the first transport's server name is returned to the second transport and overwrites its explicitly configured value.

As a result, Nodemailer sends the wrong SNI value and verifies the peer certificate against the wrong identity. In a multi-tenant service or SNI-routed SMTP gateway, one tenant can prime the cache so that a victim transport connects to the attacker's TLS virtual host, accepts the attacker's certificate with `rejectUnauthorized: true`, and sends the victim's SMTP credentials to it.

## Affected component

- **Ecosystem:** npm - **Package:** `nodemailer` - **Repository:** https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer - **Tested version:** `10.0.1` - **Tested commit:** `40d52215aac65b811d7e131bc916f68605efd9d2` - **Runtime-confirmed vulnerable versions:** `5.0.0` and `10.0.1` - **Affected versions:** `>= 5.0.0, <= 10.0.1` - **Patched versions:** None known at the time of this report - **Affected mode:** Direct TLS/SMTPS connections (`secure: true`) where different transports use the same non-IP `host` and different TLS `servername` values

The vulnerable cache implementation was introduced in commit `6859b5dd96c8d9f0070a3169a877181b71df4a3b` on 2018-12-28. Git history shows `v5.0.0` as the first release tag containing that commi…

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