CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0202

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal weakness
  • CWE-35 Path Traversal: '.../...//' weakness

References