diff --git a/components/camel-mail/pom.xml b/components/camel-mail/pom.xml
index 61b82bb0a6b40..cb288861ab459 100644
--- a/components/camel-mail/pom.xml
+++ b/components/camel-mail/pom.xml
@@ -125,6 +125,12 @@
           <artifactId>camel-quartz2</artifactId>
           <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+          <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+          <version>${assertj-version}</version>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/DelegatingDataSource.java b/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/DelegatingDataSource.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5a8eeac06d9bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/DelegatingDataSource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.component.mail;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import javax.activation.DataSource;
+
+import org.apache.camel.util.ObjectHelper;
+import org.apache.camel.util.StringHelper;
+
+final class DelegatingDataSource implements DataSource {
+
+    private final DataSource delegate;
+
+    private final String name;
+
+    public DelegatingDataSource(final String name, final DataSource delegate) {
+        this.name = StringHelper.notEmpty(name, "name");
+        this.delegate = ObjectHelper.notNull(delegate, "DataSource");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getContentType() {
+        return delegate.getContentType();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
+        return delegate.getInputStream();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
+        return delegate.getOutputStream();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBinding.java b/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBinding.java
index 2220ac1100016..da89880324124 100644
--- a/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBinding.java
+++ b/components/camel-mail/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBinding.java
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy;
 import org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy;
 import org.apache.camel.util.CollectionHelper;
+import org.apache.camel.util.FileUtil;
 import org.apache.camel.util.IOHelper;
 import org.apache.camel.util.ObjectHelper;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ protected void extractAttachmentsFromMultipart(Multipart mp, Map<String, Attachm
                 extractAttachmentsFromMultipart((Multipart) part.getContent(), map);
             } else {
                 String disposition = part.getDisposition();
-                String fileName = part.getFileName();
+                String fileName = FileUtil.stripPath(part.getFileName());
 
                 if (LOG.isTraceEnabled()) {
                     LOG.trace("Part #{}: Disposition: {}", i, disposition);
@@ -330,7 +331,11 @@ protected void extractAttachmentsFromMultipart(Multipart mp, Map<String, Attachm
                     LOG.debug("Mail contains file attachment: {}", fileName);
                     if (!map.containsKey(fileName)) {
                         // Parts marked with a disposition of Part.ATTACHMENT are clearly attachments
-                        DefaultAttachment camelAttachment = new DefaultAttachment(part.getDataHandler());
+                        final DataHandler dataHandler = part.getDataHandler();
+                        final DataSource dataSource = dataHandler.getDataSource();
+
+                        final DataHandler replacement = new DataHandler(new DelegatingDataSource(fileName, dataSource));
+                        DefaultAttachment camelAttachment = new DefaultAttachment(replacement);
                         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                         Enumeration<Header> headers = part.getAllHeaders();
                         while (headers.hasMoreElements()) {
diff --git a/components/camel-mail/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBindingAttachmentFileTest.java b/components/camel-mail/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBindingAttachmentFileTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e77304280d089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/camel-mail/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/mail/MailBindingAttachmentFileTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.component.mail;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import javax.activation.DataHandler;
+import javax.mail.Message;
+import javax.mail.MessagingException;
+import javax.mail.Multipart;
+import javax.mail.Session;
+import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
+import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
+import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
+
+import org.apache.camel.Attachment;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
+import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameter;
+import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
+public class MailBindingAttachmentFileTest {
+
+    @Parameter
+    public String name;
+
+    private final MailBinding binding = new MailBinding();
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldSanitizeAttachmentFileNames() throws MessagingException, IOException {
+        final Session session = Session.getInstance(new Properties());
+        final Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
+
+        final Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
+        final MimeBodyPart part = new MimeBodyPart();
+        part.attachFile(name);
+        multipart.addBodyPart(part);
+        message.setContent(multipart);
+
+        final Map<String, Attachment> attachments = new HashMap<>();
+        binding.extractAttachmentsFromMail(message, attachments);
+
+        assertThat(attachments).containsKey("file.txt");
+        final Attachment attachment = attachments.get("file.txt");
+        final DataHandler dataHandler = attachment.getDataHandler();
+        assertThat(dataHandler.getName()).isEqualTo("file.txt");
+    }
+
+    @Parameters(name = "{0}")
+    public static Iterable<String> fileNames() {
+        return Arrays.asList("file.txt", "../file.txt", "..\\file.txt", "/absolute/file.txt", "c:\\absolute\\file.txt");
+    }
+}