CVE-2026-110869

NameCVE-2026-110869
DescriptionNodemailer 3.0.0 before 10.0.13 has a regular expression denial of service in SMTPConnection._actionEHLO, whose four AUTH mechanism detection regexes contain overlapping whitespace sub-patterns that backtrack quadratically. A malicious or man-in-the-middle SMTP server can reply to EHLO with 250-AUTH, a long whitespace run and a non-matching token, blocking the Node.js event loop for tens of seconds to hours before authentication.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
node-nodemailer (PTS)bookworm6.8.0+~6.4.6-1vulnerable
trixie6.10.0+~6.4.17-1+deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid10.0.14+~8.0.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
node-nodemailersource(unstable)10.0.13+~8.0.2-1

Notes

https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-4ffr-jq9g-5ffx

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