CVE-2005-0202

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-02-01 CVE Reserved
2005-02-09 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (14)

URL	Tag	Source
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110805795122386&w=2	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/14211	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013145	Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10657	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html	2017-10-11
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml	2017-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-136.html	2017-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-137.html	2017-10-11

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031562.html	2017-10-11
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674	2017-10-11
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:037	2017-10-11
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html	2017-10-11
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-0202	2005-02-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617490	2005-02-15

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1.1 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1.1"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1.2 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1.2"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1.3 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1.3"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1.4 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1.4"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1.5 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1.5"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Mailman Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman"				2.1b1 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Mailman" and version "2.1b1"		-		Affected