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fix(deps): update dependency nodemailer to v7 [security]#1998

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
nodemailer (source) 6.10.1 -> 7.0.7 age confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

GHSA-mm7p-fcc7-pg87

The email parsing library incorrectly handles quoted local-parts containing @​. This leads to misrouting of email recipients, where the parser extracts and routes to an unintended domain instead of the RFC-compliant target.

Payload: "xclow3n@gmail.com x"@​internal.domain
Using the following code to send mail

const nodemailer = require("nodemailer");

let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  service: "gmail",
  auth: {
    user: "",
    pass: "",
  },
});

let mailOptions = {
  from: '"Test Sender" <your_email@gmail.com>', 
  to: "\"xclow3n@gmail.com x\"@&#8203;internal.domain",
  subject: "Hello from Nodemailer",
  text: "This is a test email sent using Gmail SMTP and Nodemailer!",
};

transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (error, info) => {
  if (error) {
    return console.log("Error: ", error);
  }
  console.log("Message sent: %s", info.messageId);

});

(async () => {
  const parser = await import("@&#8203;sparser/email-address-parser");
  const { EmailAddress, ParsingOptions } = parser.default;
  const parsed = EmailAddress.parse(mailOptions.to /*, new ParsingOptions(true) */);

  if (!parsed) {
    console.error("Invalid email address:", mailOptions.to);
    return;
  }

  console.log("Parsed email:", {
    address: `${parsed.localPart}@&#8203;${parsed.domain}`,
    local: parsed.localPart,
    domain: parsed.domain,
  });
})();

Running the script and seeing how this mail is parsed according to RFC

Parsed email: {
  address: '"xclow3n@gmail.com x"@&#8203;internal.domain',
  local: '"xclow3n@gmail.com x"',
  domain: 'internal.domain'
}

But the email is sent to xclow3n@gmail.com

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Impact:

  • Misdelivery / Data leakage: Email is sent to psres.net instead of test.com.

  • Filter evasion: Logs and anti-spam systems may be bypassed by hiding recipients inside quoted local-parts.

  • Potential compliance issue: Violates RFC 5321/5322 parsing rules.

  • Domain based access control bypass in downstream applications using your library to send mails

Recommendations

  • Fix parser to correctly treat quoted local-parts per RFC 5321/5322.

  • Add strict validation rejecting local-parts containing embedded @​ unless fully compliant with quoting.


Release Notes

nodemailer/nodemailer (nodemailer)

v7.0.7

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Bug Fixes
  • addressparser: Fixed addressparser handling of quoted nested email addresses (1150d99)
  • dns: add memory leak prevention for DNS cache (0240d67)
  • linter: Updated eslint and created prettier formatting task (df13b74)
  • refresh expired DNS cache on error (#​1759) (ea0fc5a)
  • resolve linter errors in DNS cache tests (3b8982c)

v7.0.6

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Bug Fixes
  • encoder: avoid silent data loss by properly flushing trailing base64 (#​1747) (01ae76f)
  • handle multiple XOAUTH2 token requests correctly (#​1754) (dbe0028)
  • ReDoS vulnerability in parseDataURI and _processDataUrl (#​1755) (90b3e24)

v7.0.5

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Bug Fixes
  • updated well known delivery service list (fa2724b)

v7.0.4

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Bug Fixes
  • pools: Emit 'clear' once transporter is idle and all connections are closed (839e286)
  • smtp-connection: jsdoc public annotation for socket (#​1741) (c45c84f)
  • well-known-services: Added AliyunQiye (bb9e6da)

v7.0.3

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Bug Fixes
  • attachments: Set the default transfer encoding for message/rfc822 attachments as '7bit' (007d5f3)

v7.0.2

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Bug Fixes
  • ses: Fixed structured from header (faa9a5e)

v7.0.1

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Bug Fixes
  • ses: Use formatted FromEmailAddress for SES emails (821cd09)

v7.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • SESv2 SDK support, removed older SES SDK v2 and v3 , removed SES rate limiting and idling features
Features
  • SESv2 SDK support, removed older SES SDK v2 and v3 , removed SES rate limiting and idling features (15db667)

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@spaenleh spaenleh merged commit e8e5dc5 into main Oct 8, 2025
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