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CVE-2026-90776 (GCVE-0-2026-90776)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-13 11:42 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:04
VLAI
Title
Nodemailer 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 Denial of Service via Quadratic Address Parsing
Summary
Nodemailer versions 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 contain a quadratic time complexity vulnerability in the addressparser component when parsing email addresses with RFC 5322 comments. Attackers can craft malicious email headers with comment-separated atoms to consume excessive CPU and block the Node.js event loop for several seconds, causing denial of service.
Severity
8.7 (High)
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
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-16 14:04 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
nodemailer nodemailer Affected: 9.1.0 , < 10.0.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 10.0.5 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:nodemailer:nodemailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2026-09-11 00:00
Credits
mmadersbacher
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