GHSA-8m3c-c648-2xjj: Nodemailer: resolveContent() on a MailMessage bypasses disableFileAccess/disableUrlAccess when called with the legacy signature
Nodemailer’s disableFileAccess / disableUrlAccess options are a security sandbox that lets an application forbid untrusted message content (html/text/attachment path/href) from reading local files or making outbound HTTP(S) requests. The fix for GHSA-wqvq-jvpq-h66f (commit 5f69497) threaded these flags through the library’s internal resolution paths (MailMessage.resolveAll() and _convertDataImages()), but the public plugin API MailMessage.resolveContent(...args) (lib/mailer/mail-message.js:41-43) remains a raw passthrough to shared.resolveContent().
When called with the documented legacy signature mail.resolveContent(data, key, callback), shared.resolveContent normalizes the missing options argument to an empty object (options = options || {}, lib/shared/index.js:530). The message-level flags that the MailMessage constructor already copied into mail.data (lib/mailer/mail-message.js:34-38) are silently discarded, so resolveContentValue skips both access-control guards and reaches nmfetch(url) (SSRF, lib/shared/index.js:588) or fs.createReadStream(path) (arbitrary file read, lib/shared/index.js:597).
A plugin or application code that resolves message content through the documented API (the same API the library’s own _convertDataImages uses, threading the flags explicitly) thereby bypasses the sandbox an application deliberately enabled.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-8m3c-c648-2xjj
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/ab7ef348b9a97b1fd70e7bfbeb56d4ea4a07946b
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/commit/dc48ed395c4d6c79ee5c95eb6eff17bafe391474
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/releases/tag/v9.1.1
- github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/security/advisories/GHSA-8m3c-c648-2xjj
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