CVE-2004-1177
Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Base score: 4.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.80%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 78
- Score date: 10/7/2026
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)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287555
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110549296126351&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/13603
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:015
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-235.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18854
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11113
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287555
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110549296126351&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/13603
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:015
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-235.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18854
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11113
Raw JSON (NVD)
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