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SCA: security update for nodemailer (GHSA-hwqf-gcqm-7353)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415995

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The package nodemailer before 6.6.1 are vulnerable to HTTP Header Injection if unsanitized user input that
 may contain newlines and carriage returns is passed into an address object. (CVE-2021-23400)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwqf-gcqm-7353

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415995

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23400

cwe: CWE-74