CVE-2015-2775

mailman: directory traversal in MTA transports that deliver programmatically

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 31, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before passing it to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running mailman.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')