CVE-2015-2775
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.
02 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.
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
- 7.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.7% 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 2026-06-17.
- 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
- 2015-04-13 14:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-03-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 98487c1fb957dd77bd4103c59c30e6c0eba5995c1f40c726675ceda13932ba5f
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1437145
- www.debian.orgDSA-3214http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3214
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2015:1153http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1153.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2015:1417http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1417.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-5333http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154911.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2558-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2558-1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-5216http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156742.html
- mail.python.org[Mailman-Developers] 20150327 Security patch and Mailman 2.1.20 to be released on 31 Marchhttps://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024871.html
- mail.python.org[Mailman-Announce] 20150327 Mailman 2.1.20 releasehttps://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-March/000209.html
- mail.python.org[Mailman-Developers] 20150331 Security patch and Mailman 2.1.20 to be released on 31 Marchhttps://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024875.html
- www.securitytracker.com1032033http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032033
- www.securityfocus.com73922http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73922
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- mailman Fixed in 1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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