CVE-2011-0049

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 95.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _list_file_get function in lib/Majordomo.pm in Majordomo 2 before 20110131 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in the help command, as demonstrated using (1) a crafted email and (2) cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr in the web interface.

Affected products

Mj2 Majordomo 2: through 20110130; 20110101, 20110102, 20110103, 20110104, 20110105, 20110106 (+23)

References

http://osvdb.org/70762
http://secunia.com/advisories/43125
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8061
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16103
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/363726
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516150/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46127
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025024
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0288
https://bug628064.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=506481
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628064
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65113

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