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Description

Mail is an internet library for Ruby designed to handle email generation, parsing, and sending. Prior to 2.9.1, Mail::Utilities.q_value_decode and Mail::Utilities.b_value_decode used a single String#match and an overly greedy charset capture to decode only the first RFC 2047 encoded-word and mishandle surrounding or subsequent text. A crafted malformed encoded-word in an address display name or local part could cross ? delimiters and make decoded From, To, or Reply-To header values differ from the raw values inspected by a human reviewer or downstream parser, enabling apparent sender or recipient spoofing, phishing, or authorization-check bypass. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mikel mail < 2.9.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-mail 2.9.1-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-mail No fix yet —
Debian 12 ruby-mail No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 jruby +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS jruby +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS jruby +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby3.0 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS jruby No fix yet —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS jruby No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS jruby No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS ruby2.7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS ruby2.5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS ruby2.3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS jruby No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ruby3.2-kube-logging-operator-fluentd-outputs +1 6.8.0-r6 —
Wolfi rolling ruby3.3-mail 2.9.1-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems mail < 2.9.1 2.9.1 GHSA-mvxr-6m87-mv2q

References