CVE-2024-4140 describes an excessive memory use vulnerability (CWE-770) in Email-MIME versions prior to 1.954, affecting products like fedoraproject email-mime and rjbs email-mime. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition by sending specially crafted multipart MIME messages. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.954CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rjbs:email-mime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0, < 1.954CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:rjbs:email-mime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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