01 Record
CVE-2005-3573
Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-11-16 07:37Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-11-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1e945d0370e9ddd803f065eb7fe963f554410a57d1724404ef99da7795dc5c24
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com19167http://secunia.com/advisories/19167
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-242-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-242-1
- secunia.com18503http://secunia.com/advisories/18503
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2404http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2404
- patches.sgi.com20060401-01-Uftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
- www.trustix.org2006-0012http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0012/
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0204http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10038https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10038
- www.osvdb.org20819http://www.osvdb.org/20819
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commailman-utf8-scrubber-dos(23139)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23139
- secunia.com18456http://secunia.com/advisories/18456
- securitytracker.com1015735http://securitytracker.com/id?1015735
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SR:2006:001http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0003.html
- secunia.com17874http://secunia.com/advisories/17874
- secunia.com19532http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
- wwwnew.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:222http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:222
- www.securityfocus.com15408http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15408
- secunia.com18612http://secunia.com/advisories/18612
- secunia.com17511http://secunia.com/advisories/17511
- mail.python.org[Mailman-Users] 20050912 Uncaught runner exception: 'utf8' codeccan'tdecode bytes in position 1-4: invalid datahttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-September/046523.html
- secunia.com19196http://secunia.com/advisories/19196
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327732
- www.debian.orgDSA-955http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-955