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CVE-2015-2775

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU Mailman before 2.1.20, when not using a static alias, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a list name.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• GNU Mailman: through 2.1.19
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154911.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156742.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1153.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1417.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3214
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73922
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032033
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2558-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1437145
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-March/000209.html
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024871.html
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024875.html

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