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Fencer Vulns
low 2.1

CVE-2002-0389 json

Pipermail in Mailman stores private mail messages with predictable filenames in a world-executable directory, which allows local users to r…

published 2002-06-18 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0386

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pipermail in Mailman stores private mail messages with predictable filenames in a world-executable directory, which allows local users to read private mailing list archives.

Patch / fix

  • mailman RHEL 6 3:2.1.12-25.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1417

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-2002-0389 updated cvss 2.1

mailman: Local users able to read private mailing list archives

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 mailman Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mailman
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) mailman 2.1.12-25.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) mailman 2.1.12-25.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1417

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.