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CVE-2011-0739
The deliver function in the sendmail delivery agent (lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/sendmail.rb) in Ruby Mail gem 2.2.14 and earlier…
Medium6.8EPSS 2.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The deliver function in the sendmail delivery agent (lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/sendmail.rb) in Ruby Mail gem 2.2.14 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an e-mail address.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsmailGHSA-cpjc-p7fc-j9xh (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- ADV-2011-0233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://groups.google.com/group/mail-ruby/browse_thread/thread/e93bbd05706478dd?pli=1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ruby-mail-deliver-command-execution(65010) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 46021 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/mikel/mail/raw/master/patches/20110126_sendmail.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43077 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 70667 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cpjc-p7fc-j9xh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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