CVE-2005-0202

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

GNU Mailman: 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+1)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031562.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110805795122386&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14211
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013145
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:037
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-136.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-137.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10657

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