CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-92597

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

Nodemailer versions >= 6.9.16 and < 9.1.0 mis-parse RFC 5322 comments in email addresses. A comment closed immediately before a non-break character causes the tokenizer to concatenate the atoms surrounding the comment, so an address like [email protected](x)evil.com is read as the domain good-corp.comevil.com. This can lead to delivery to an attacker-controlled domain. Fixed in 9.1.0.

Risk Assessment

An application that validates the recipient domain with a strict RFC 5322 parser or a naive allow-list and then hands the raw address to Nodemailer can be induced to deliver mail to an attacker-controlled domain. This may result in information leakage or phishing.

Recommendation

Upgrade Nodemailer to version 9.1.0 or later. Ensure email address validation detects and rejects malformed RFC 5322 comment parsing.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Nodemailer versions >= 6.9.16 and < 9.1.0 mis-parse RFC 5322 comments in email addresses: in lib/addressparser, a comment closed immediately before a non-break character causes the tokenizer to concatenate the atoms surrounding the comment instead of treating the comment as folding whitespace that terminates the domain. A recipient address such as [email protected](x)evil.com is therefore read by Nodemailer as the single domain good-corp.comevil.com (registrable domain comevil.com, which an attacker can register) and used for both the SMTP envelope (RCPT TO) and the emitted To:/From: headers, while a conformant RFC 5322 parser terminates the domain at the comment and reads good-corp.com. An application that validates the recipient domain with a strict RFC 5322 parser (without inspecting parse defects) or a naive prefix/substring allow-list and then hands the raw address to Nodemailer can be induced to deliver mail to a domain the attacker controls. Fixed in 9.1.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS