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Severity
6.1
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a user-options URL.

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Source: Debian
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via the (1) email or (2) language parameters.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
EPSS
0.20%
OS Command Injection
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), in certain external archiver configurations, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in an email Subject line. NOTE: multiple third parties report that they are unable to reproduce this, regardless of whether cPanel or WHM is used.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
EPSS
0.09%
Path Traversal
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via ../ directory traversal at /mailman/private/mailman (aka the private archive authentication endpoint) via the username parameter. NOTE: multiple third parties report that they are unable to reproduce this, regardless of whether cPanel or WHM is used.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CSRF
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

In GNU Mailman before 2.1.38, a list member or moderator can get a CSRF token and craft an admin request (using that token) to set a new admin password or make other changes.

First published (updated )
Severity
8
CSRF
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A csrftoken value is not specific to a single user account. An attacker can obtain a value within the context of an unprivileged user account, and then use that value in a CSRF attack against an admin (e.g., for account takeover).

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
CSRF
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrftoken value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
6.1
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

GNU Mailman 2.x before 2.1.30 uses the .obj extension for scrubbed application/octet-stream MIME parts. This behavior may contribute to XSS attacks against list-archive visitors, because an HTTP reply from an archive web server may lack a MIME type, and a web browser may perform MIME sniffing, conclude that the MIME type should have been text/html, and execute JavaScript code.

1 / 2
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be displayed on a web page from a trusted site.

1 / 2
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
5.4
XSS
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mailman 2.1.26 and earlier allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

1 / 2
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Mailman 1.1 allows list administrators to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the %(listname) macro expansion.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The wrapper program in mailman 2.0beta3 and 2.0beta4 does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows local users to gain privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Mailman 2.0.x before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to gain access to list administrative pages when there is an empty site or list password, which is not properly handled during the call to the crypt function during authentication.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mailman email archiver before 2.08 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information or authentication credentials via a malicious link that is accessed by other web users.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability in Mailman 2.0.1 and earlier allows list administrators to obtain user passwords.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mailman before 2.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute script as other users via a subscriber's list subscription options in the (1) adminpw or (2) info parameters to the ml-name feature.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Pipermail in Mailman stores private mail messages with predictable filenames in a world-executable directory, which allows local users to read private mailing list archives.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Mailman before 2.0.11 allow remote attackers to execute script via (1) the admin login page, or (2) the Pipermail index summaries.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the admin CGI script for Mailman before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to steal session cookies and conduct unauthorized activities.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the create CGI script for Mailman before 2.1.3 allows remote attackers to steal cookies of other users.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Unknown vulnerability in the mail command handler in Mailman before 2.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed e-mail commands.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The password generation in mailman before 2.1.5 generates only 5 million unique passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to obtain user passwords via a crafted email request to the Mailman server.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Mailman before 2.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an email message with an empty subject field.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Mailman 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message that causes the server to "fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3573.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Directory traversal vulnerability in the truepath 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.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The 55optionstraceback.dpatch patch for mailman 2.1.5 in Ubuntu 4.10 displays a different error message depending on whether the e-mail address is subscribed to a private list, which allows remote attackers to determine the list membership for a given e-mail address.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
Code Injection, CRLF Injection
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CRLF injection vulnerability in Utils.py in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to spoof messages in the error log and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via CRLF sequences in the URI.

First published (updated )

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