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CVE-2004-0412
Mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to obtain user passwords via a crafted email request to the Mailman server.
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to obtain user passwords via a crafted email request to the Mailman server.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImailmanGHSA-hj4h-vqpq-95wg (opens in a new tab)
References
9
- 10412 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200406-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 11701 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mailman-obtain-password(16256) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MDKSA-2004:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2004-1734 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- CLA-2004:842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123559 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [Mailman-Announce] 20040515 RELEASED Mailman 2.1.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1762 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hj4h-vqpq-95wg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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