CVE-2024-4140: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An excessive memory use issue (CWE-770) exists in Email-MIME, before version 1.954, which can cause denial of service when parsing multipart MIME messages. The patch set (from 2020 and 2024) limits excessive depth and the total number of parts.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only; version 40 only
• Rjbs Email-Mime: before 1.954 (fixed in 1.954)

Published 2024-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.