CVE-2012-2139
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0219)
- Published
- July 18, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0219 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rubygems / mail gem
- rubygems / mail gem
- rubygems / mail gem
- rubygems / mail gem
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(Vendor 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/commit/29aca25218e4c82991400eb9b0c933626aefc98f(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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