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CVE-2021-23400

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23400 is a high-severity HTTP Header Injection vulnerability affecting nodemailer versions prior to 6.6.1. It allows an attacker to inject malicious headers if unsanitized user input containing newlines or carriage returns is used in an address object. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high potential for impact including confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and requires user interaction. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, organizations using affected nodemailer versions should update immediately.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodemailer:nodemailer:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: nodemailerFixed in: 6.6.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-hwqf-gcqm-7353medium

Header injection in nodemailer

Dec 10, 2021

References

github.com / nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/7e02648cc8cd863f5085bad3cd09087bccf84b9f
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / nodemailer/nodemailer/issues/1289
Third Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1314737
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEMAILER-1296415
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory