Bug 2563412

Summary: CVE-2026-116264 perl-MIME-tools: perl-MIME-tools: Security filter bypass via invalid Content-Type parameter [fedora-rawhide]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: perl-MIME-toolsAssignee: Paul Howarth <paul>
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Description Marian Rehak 2026-10-29 15:08:57 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

MIME::Field::ParamVal versions before 5.521 for Perl allow one invalid Content-Type parameter to hide the parameters after it, including the multipart boundary.

Parameter parsing stops at the first parameter whose name it cannot read, such as x:y=1 or a name containing an 8-bit byte, and drops every parameter after it. When the boundary is among them, MIME::Parser keeps the multipart body as a single undecoded part without marking the parse as ambiguous.

Mail readers that skip the invalid parameter still find the boundary. A remote sender can hide an attachment from a filter that relies on ambiguous_content() while the recipient's mail client shows it.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:32:41 UTC
FEDORA-2026-51fdfb7476 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-51fdfb7476

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:34:00 UTC
FEDORA-2026-0e79d6ad13 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0e79d6ad13

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:35:07 UTC
FEDORA-2026-a415b3bf48 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a415b3bf48