CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-43919

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-04-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-04-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-24

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu mailman (>= 2.1.1 <= 2.1.39)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-24 Path Traversal: '../filedir' weakness

References