CVE-2005-0202: GNU Mailman

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Mailman: version 2.1 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.5 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.