{"id":"CVE-2026-116273","aliases":[],"cve":{"records":[{"id":"CVE-2026-116273","source":"CPANSec","state":"PUBLISHED","reasons":[],"replacements":[],"disputed":false,"unsupportedWhenAssigned":false,"reserved":"2026-10-25T18:05:02.236Z","published":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z","modified":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z"}],"publishers":[{"name":"CPANSec","role":"CNA","organizationId":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e","modified":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z"}],"references":[{"url":"https://metacpan.org/release/DSKOLL/MIME-tools-5.521/changes","tags":["release-notes"],"source":"CPANSec"}],"weaknesses":[{"id":"CWE-1188","description":"CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default","source":"CPANSec"},{"id":"CWE-770","description":"CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling","source":"CPANSec"}],"applicability":[],"prioritization":[]},"title":"MIME::Parser versions before 5.521 for Perl set no limit on the number of message parts by default, allowing memory exhaustion","titleSource":"CPANSec","descriptionSource":"CPANSec","description":"MIME::Parser versions before 5.521 for Perl set no limit on the number of message parts by default, allowing memory exhaustion.\n\nThe max_parts option defaulted to -1, which disables the limit, so a parser created with default settings builds an entity for every part however many a message has.\n\nVersion 5.521 sets max_parts to 1000 and max_depth to 64 by default. Setting either to -1 still removes the limit.","score":null,"severity":"unknown","published":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z","modified":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z","withdrawn":false,"knownExploited":false,"affected":[],"products":[{"vendor":"","name":"MIME-tools","platforms":[],"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThan":"5.521","versionType":"custom"}],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","packageURL":"pkg:cpan/MIME-tools","cpes":[],"source":"CPANSec","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116273"}],"remediation":[{"text":"Upgrade to MIME-tools 5.521 or later.","source":"CPANSec","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116273"}],"references":["https://metacpan.org/release/DSKOLL/MIME-tools-5.521/changes"],"sources":[{"name":"CVE","id":"CVE-2026-116273","modified":"2026-10-28T17:34:44.660Z","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116273"}],"assessments":[],"sourceAffected":[],"observedAt":"2026-10-29T14:34:58.783Z","kev":{"status":"not-listed","checkedAt":"2026-10-31T10:20:31.211Z"},"coverage":[{"source":"NVD","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.628Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.628Z"},{"source":"GHSA","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.820Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.820Z"},{"source":"EUVD","status":"refresh-failed","attemptedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.760Z"},{"source":"EPSS","status":"no-result","checkedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.994Z","attemptedAt":"2026-10-28T17:55:35.994Z"}],"evidence":[],"aiSummary":{"text":"MIME::Parser versions before 5.521 for Perl have no default limit on message parts, allowing memory exhaustion. The max_parts option defaults to -1, removing the limit. Version 5.521 sets default limits.","model":"@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast","generatedAt":"2026-10-30T08:54:31.282Z","sources":[{"name":"CVE","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116273"}]}}