CVE-2025-13033 (GCVE-0-2025-13033)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-14 19:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 11:26
VLAI
Title
Nodemailer: nodemailer: email to an unintended domain can occur due to interpretation conflict
Summary
A vulnerability was identified in the email parsing library due to improper handling of specially formatted recipient email addresses. An attacker can exploit this flaw by crafting a recipient address that embeds an external address within quotes. This causes the application to misdirect the email to the attacker's external address instead of the intended internal recipient. This could lead to a significant data leak of sensitive information and allow an attacker to bypass security filters and access controls.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-14 20:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1069 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
nodemailer nodemailer Affected: 0 , < 7.0.7 (semver)
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Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 Unaffected: 1777566546 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:8.1::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 Unaffected: 1772573159 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhdh:1.9::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2     cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
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Date Public
2025-10-07 13:42
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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