CVE-2012-2139

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/file_delivery.rb in the Mail gem before 2.4.4 for Ruby allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the to parameter.

Affected products

rubygems Mail Gem: through 2.4.3; 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48970
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/29aca25218e4c82991400eb9b0c933626aefc98f
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html

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