CVE-2006-0052: GNU Mailman

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

The attachment scrubber (Scrubber.py) in Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier, when using Python's library email module 2.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailing list delivery failure) via a multipart MIME message with a single part that has two blank lines between the first boundary and the end boundary.

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 2006-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.