Mailman vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product76 versions
The short answer

Mailman is made by Gnu. We track 47 published vulnerabilities in it, across 76 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Mailman, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Mailman vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Mailman's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Mailman flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 8.0%

    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 ..

    CVSS7.6Published13 Apr 2015
  2. 6.4%

    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

    CVSS6.8Published6 Sep 2006
  3. 6.3%

    Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Mailman before 2.0.11 allow remote attackers to execute script via (1) the admin login page, or (2) the Pipermail index summaries.

    CVSS7.5Published18 Jun 2002
  4. 6.1%

    Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mailman before 2.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute script as other users via a subscriber's list subscription options in the (1) adminpw or (2) info parameters to the...

    CVSS7.5Published5 Sep 2002
  5. 4.7%

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via the (1) email or (2) language parameters.

    CVSS4.3Published7 Feb 2003
  6. 4.6%

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a user-options URL.

    CVSS6.1Published23 Jan 2018
  7. 4.2%

    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Cgi/confirm.py in GNU Mailman 2.1.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) full name or (2) username field in a...

    CVSS4.3Published22 Feb 2011
  8. 3.1%

    Mailman 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message that causes the server to "fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message," a different vulnerability than...

    CVSS7.8Published11 Dec 2005
  9. 3.0%

    Mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to obtain user passwords via a crafted email request to the Mailman server.

    CVSS5.0Published18 Aug 2004
  10. 2.9%

    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...

    CVSS5.0Published2 May 2005
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We track 47 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Mailman, across 76 versions.

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