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.

• CWE-20

• 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/48970Vendor Advisory
• 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/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc
• https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0Exploit, Patch
• https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2Exploit, Patch
• 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/48970Vendor Advisory
• 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/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc
• https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0Exploit, Patch
• https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2Exploit, Patch

Published

Jul 18, 2012

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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