CVE-2005-0202

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU Mailman 2.1

2.1

GNU Mailman 2.1.1

2.1.1

GNU Mailman 2.1.2

2.1.2

GNU Mailman 2.1.3

2.1.3

GNU Mailman 2.1.4

2.1.4

GNU Mailman 2.1.5

2.1.5

GNU Mailman 2.1b1

2.1b1

References

APPLE-SA-2005-03-21

Patch

20050209 Administrivia: List Compromised due to Mailman Vulnerability

Vendor Advisory

20050209 [USN-78-1] Mailman vulnerability

14211

1013145

DSA-674

GLSA-200502-11

Patch, Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2005:037

SUSE-SA:2005:007

RHSA-2005:136

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2005:137

Patch, Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10657

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