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CVE-2005-0202

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -