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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0202 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arb…

published 2005-02-09 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0203

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mailman RHEL 3 3:2.1.5-24.rhel3
  • mailman RHEL 4 3:2.1.5-31.rhel4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:136RHSA-2005:137

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0202 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 mailman 2.1.5-24.rhel3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 mailman 2.1.5-24.rhel3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:136
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 mailman 2.1.5-31.rhel4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 mailman 2.1.5-31.rhel4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:137
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 mailman 2.1.5-24.rhel3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:136
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 mailman 2.1.5-31.rhel4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:137
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 mailman 2.1.5-24.rhel3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:136
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 mailman 2.1.5-31.rhel4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:137

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Exploit prediction

2.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

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