PT-2012-3832 · Ruby+1 · Mail Gem+1

Mikel Lindsaar · Published 2012-07-18 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2012-2140

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mail gem versions prior to 2.4.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a sendmail or exim delivery.

Recommendations For Mail gem versions prior to 2.4.3, update to version 2.4.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2140

GHSA-RP63-JFMW-532W

Affected Products

Mail Gem

Suse

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2 · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2140 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48970 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rp63-jfmw-532w · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc · Note
• https://github.com/mikel/mail · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8 · Note