CVE-2012-2139

N/A Unknown

Published: July 18, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/48970

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/29aca25218e4c82991400eb9b0c933626aefc98f

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html