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SCA: security update for nodemailer (GHSA-prgh-xp8r-p3m5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 472997

Description

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

 - Nodemailer versions 9.1.0 through 10.0.4 contain a quadratic time complexity vulnerability in the
 addressparser component when parsing email addresses with RFC 5322 comments. Attackers can craft malicious
 email headers with comment-separated atoms to consume excessive CPU and block the Node.js event loop for
 several seconds, causing denial of service. (CVE-2026-90776)

Solution

Update the nodemailer library and its related packages to version 10.0.5 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-prgh-xp8r-p3m5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 472997

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/6/2026

Updated: 10/6/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-90776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-90776