Is CVE-2026-90776 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-90776?

CVE-2026-90776 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2026-90776

Description

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.