13671 : Mailman private.py true_path Function Traversal Arbitrary File Access
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-02-09

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-0202" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Disclosure: Uncoordinated Disclosure, Discovered in the Wild
OSVDB: Web Related

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1013145
Secunia Advisory ID: 14211 14212 14222 14223 14238 14242 14257 14655 19522
CVE ID: 2005-0202 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-02/0109.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301061
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:037
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-78-1
Generic Informational URL: http://news.com.com/Flaw+in+mail-list+software+leaks+passwords/2100-1002_3-5571576.html
Other Advisory URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-267-1
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:136

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-06-06 | Disagree?

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