CVE-2009-4896

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mlmmj-php-admin web interface for Mailing List Managing Made Joyful (mlmmj) 1.2.15 through 1.2.17 allow remote authenticated users to overwrite, create, or delete arbitrary files, or determine the existence of arbitrary directories, via a .. (dot dot) in a list name in a (1) edit or (2) save action.

Affected products

Mlmmj: 1.2.15, 1.2.16, 1.2.17

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259968
http://mlmmj.org/node/84
http://secunia.com/advisories/40658
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2073
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/26/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607256
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259968

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