CVE-2005-3573: GNU Mailman

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Affected products

• GNU Mailman: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2005-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.