Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2139

Title: Rubygems Mail Gem Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2139.

CWE Category CWE-22
Published Date Jul 18, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.53%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2139: 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.

Impacted Vendors

R
rubygems 1

Reference Links

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 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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2139 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.