Vulnerability CVE-2012-2140
Published: 2012-07-18

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Rubygems -> Mail gem 

 References:
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2
https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0
https://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8
http://secunia.com/advisories/48970
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