Vulnerability in GNU Mailman
CVE-2005-0202
Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".../....///" sequences, which are not properly cleansed by regular expressions that are intended to remove "../" and "./" sequences.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Mailman — versions 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-137.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10657 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031562.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-136.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674 (vendor-advisory)