CVE-2006-0052
The attachment scrubber (Scrubber.py) in Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier, when using Python's library email module 2.5, allows remote attackers…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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
References
15
- 19522 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20782 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9475 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 17311 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20624 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:061 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358892 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1015851 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 19545 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19571 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-267-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 24367 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2006-0060 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0052)Record last updated .