VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2775

high
Published 2015-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnumailman{"endIncluding":"2.1.19"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.