Nodemailer before 8.0.9 fails to sanitize carriage return and line feed characters in list comment fields, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary message headers. An attacker with control over list.*.comment parameters can inject CRLF sequences to create additional headers in generated RFC822 messages, altering mail client behavior and message semantics.

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Description Nodemailer before 8.0.9 fails to sanitize carriage return and line feed characters in list comment fields, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary message headers. An attacker with control over list.*.comment parameters can inject CRLF sequences to create additional headers in generated RFC822 messages, altering mail client behavior and message semantics.
Title Nodemailer CRLF Injection via List-* Header Comments
First Time appeared Nodemailer
Nodemailer nodemailer
Weaknesses CWE-93
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:nodemailer:nodemailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Nodemailer
Nodemailer nodemailer
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-31T08:46:26.291Z

Reserved: 2026-08-30T13:38:29.951Z

Link: CVE-2026-82661

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-31T09:17:03.940

Modified: 2026-08-31T09:17:03.940

Link: CVE-2026-82661

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-08-31T08:46:26Z

Links: CVE-2026-82661 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-08-31T10:30:17Z

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