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CVE-2002-0389

Status: ModifiedLow (2.1)—

Pipermail in Mailman stores private mail messages with predictable filenames in a world-executable directory, which allows local users to read private mailing list archives.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

GNU — Mailman

CWEs

References

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          "vectorString": "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
          "authentication": "NONE",
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    {
      "comment": "Red Hat does not intend to take any action on this issue. This is the expected behavior of Mailman and is not considered to be a security flaw by upstream.  If Mailman upstream addresses this issue in a future update, we may revisit our decision.",
      "lastModified": "2016-12-27T21:59:00.243",
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