CVE-2005-0202

Mailman <= 2.1.5 - Directory Traversal via Malformed Path Sequences

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-137.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013145
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10657
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandrake
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:037
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031562.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110805795122386&w=2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-136.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/14211

Scores

EPSS 0.0273
EPSS Percentile 86.1%

Details

Status published
Products (7)
gnu/mailman 2.1
gnu/mailman 2.1.1
gnu/mailman 2.1.2
gnu/mailman 2.1.3
gnu/mailman 2.1.4
gnu/mailman 2.1.5
gnu/mailman 2.1b1
Published May 02, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026