CVE-2006-2191

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in Mailman before 2.1.9 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this vulnerability, stating that it is "unexploitable.

Affected products

GNU Mailman: through 2.1.8

References

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060906.155339.0c0732a4.en.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21732
http://secunia.com/advisories/22639
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060906.155339.0c0732a4.en.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21732
http://secunia.com/advisories/22639
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html

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