Bug 2552969 (CVE-2026-110870)

Summary: CVE-2026-110870 nodemailer: nodemailer: Domain allow-list bypass via improper address comment parsing
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abarbaro, alizardo, dschmidt, ikhan, jchui, jhe, jlanda, kaycoth, kshier, ktsao, lchilton, nboldt, oaljalju, psrna, rbobbitt, rhel-process-autobot, sfeifer, simaishi, stcannon, watson-tool-maintainers, yguenane
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A flaw was found in Nodemailer. A remote attacker can bypass domain allow-lists or cause email delivery failures by submitting specially crafted recipient addresses. Because the address parser fails to properly strip parenthesized comments within formatted email addresses, unvalidated characters are forwarded to mail transfer envelope commands.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-14 23:02:18 UTC
Nodemailer from 3.0.0 before 10.0.13 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in its address parser that fails to strip RFC 5322 comments inside angle-bracket addresses. Attackers can supply recipients like a display name with a parenthesized comment in the domain, so illegal characters reach envelope.to and RCPT TO, causing rejected delivery or parser interpretation conflicts that bypass domain allow-lists.