CVE-2025-14874: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 · Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Affects Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 48% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 18 Dec 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
No specific mitigation or workaround information is provided in the vendor advisory content supplied.
Description
CVE-2025-14874 is a medium severity vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 caused by improper handling of exceptional conditions in Nodemailer's address parser. A crafted email address header can trigger infinite recursion, leading to a denial of service (DoS). No affected versions or patch information are explicitly provided. The vulnerability does not impact confidentiality or integrity but affects availability.
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14874 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418133 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/b61b9c0cfd682b6f647754ca338373b68336a150 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-rcmh-qjqh-p98v (opens in a new tab)