Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2140

RCE

Title: Rubygems Mail Gem RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2140.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jul 18, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.67%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

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/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0 https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2 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/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0 https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2140 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 18, 2012 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:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.