CVE-2026-63435

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/mikel/mail/security/advisories/GHSA-mvxr-6m87-mv2q

https://github.com/mikel/mail/releases/tag/2.9.1

https://github.com/mikel/mail/pull/1664

https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/f9d59c2e447af42e2c3dec5a56b1bb25c7292859

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00328