Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubygem-mail.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published29 Jan 2026
- disclosed14 Mar 2012
Introduced: 14 Mar 2012
CVE-2012-2139 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-mail.src package and not the rubygem-mail.src package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891762
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2139
- 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