MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-110872 (CVSS 8.2)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 14, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.3%

Nodemailer from 3.0.0 before 10.0.10 contains a quadratic complexity denial of service vulnerability in the SMTP client reply parser in SMTPConnection._onData and isPartialResponse. A malicious SMTP server or on-path attacker can stream continuation lines without a completion line before authentication, blocking the Node.js event loop and exhausting memory.

Technical details

CVSS

8.2

AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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