Upstream information

CVE-2005-0202 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 65563 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 86985 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:57:51 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:38 2025