CVE-2025-13033: Nodemailer: nodemailer: email to an unintended domain can occur due to interpretation conflict
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.57% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: nodemailer nodemailer 7.0.7.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to nodemailer nodemailer 7.0.7 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
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.
- Published
- Nov 14, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 18, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 47th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-1286
Report tools
Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · redhat
- 7.5
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
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What does it mean in your environment?
The assessment above is generated automatically from the record's data; it doesn't know your environment. Our team verifies on your systems whether this vulnerability is actually exploitable and which mitigation is enough.
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Is your version affected?
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
nodemailer nodemailer
- before 7.0.7affected · semver
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
- all versionsaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1
- 1777566546 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9
- 1772573159 and laternot affected · rpm
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | node-nodemailer | from 0 | — |
| Debian:13 | node-nodemailer | before 6.10.0+~6.4.17-1+deb13u1 | 6.10.0+~6.4.17-1+deb13u1 |
| Debian:14 | node-nodemailer | before 7.0.9+~7.0.2-1 | 7.0.9+~7.0.2-1 |
| npm | nodemailer | before 7.0.7 | 7.0.7 |
Same product
nodemailer: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2020-7769This affects the package nodemailer before 6.4.16.40Plan
- CVE-2026-82854Nodemailer before 8.0.4 SMTP Command Injection via envelope.size38Monitor
- CVE-2021-23400HTTP Header Injection35Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- Later →CVE-2025-14874Dec 18, 2025 · Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header30Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-82659Aug 31, 2026 · nodemailer before 9.0.1 File Read and SSRF via raw option28Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-82660Aug 31, 2026 · Nodemailer jsonTransport bypasses disableFileAccess and disableUrlAccess21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| nodemailer nodemailer | 7.0.7 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:node-nodemailer | 6.10.0+~6.4.17-1+deb13u1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
| npm:nodemailer | 7.0.7 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-1286 · Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of InputCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3751
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13033
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402179
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/1150d99fba77280df2cfb1885c43df23109a8626
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-mm7p-fcc7-pg87
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.