CVE-2005-0202 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-0202

Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for...

Vulnerability Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".../....///" sequences, which are not properly cleansed by regular expressions that are intended to remove "../" and "./" sequences.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mailman
Vulnerable Versions:
2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.1b1

Timeline

Official Publish: February 9th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.