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CVE-2012-2140

The Mail gem before 2.4.3 for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) sendmail or (2) exim delivery.

Published

2012-07-18T18:55:01.510

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	rubygems	mail_gem	≤ 2.4.1	Yes
Application	rubygems	mail_gem	2.3.2	Yes
Application	rubygems	mail_gem	2.3.3	Yes

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/48970 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352 ([email protected])
https://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc ([email protected])
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48970 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)