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.
CVE-2024-4140
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-05-02. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 63.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 2, 2024
Last Modified
August 26, 2025
References (24)
- security@ubuntuhttps://bugs.debian.org/960062
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/02bf3e26812c8f38a86a33c168571f9783365df2
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3a12edd119e493156a5a05e45dd50f4e36b702e8
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3dcf096eeccb8e4dd42738de676c8f4a5aa7a531
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/7e96ecfa1da44914a407f82ae98ba817bba08f2d
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/b2cb62f19e12580dd235f79e2546d44a6bec54d1
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/fc0fededd24a71ccc51bcd8b1e486385d09aae63
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/issues/66
- security@ubuntuhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/pull/80
- security@ubuntuhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UFD5BWGYAVLW6IO4SUNLTJCFFLHZYQGT/
- security@ubuntuhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YHXHDLPZ6JV4KK3Q43O6TE3WOBAIUQRC/
- security@ubuntuhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4140
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/960062
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/02bf3e26812c8f38a86a33c168571f9783365df2
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3a12edd119e493156a5a05e45dd50f4e36b702e8
Weakness Classification(1)
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10 shownCWE-770
- CVE-2018-20033EG 9.8CRITICAL
- CVE-2019-11479NVD 7.5EG 9.0EPSS 100%HIGH
- CVE-2019-11478NVD 5.3EG 9.0EPSS 100%MEDIUM
- CVE-2019-10088EG 8.8EPSS 91%HIGH
- CVE-2018-15462EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2018-15460EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2018-0137EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2008-5180NVD 5.3EG 7.9EPSS 99%MEDIUM
- CVE-2019-10094EG 7.8HIGH
- CVE-2018-16865EG 7.8HIGH
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