CVE-2004-1143: GNU Mailman

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The password generation in mailman before 2.1.5 generates only 5 million unique passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

Affected products

• GNU Mailman: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.