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CVE-2026-110869

8.7 high SSVC exploitation: poc Awaiting Analysis

Nodemailer 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.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-16 18:14
  2. First seenCVSS 8.7NVD modified 2026-10-14 23:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 3