CVE-2009-4896
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mlmmj-php-admin web interface for Mailing List Managing Made Joyful (mlmmj) 1.2.15…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mlmmj-php-admin web interface for Mailing List Managing Made Joyful (mlmmj) 1.2.15 through 1.2.17 allow remote authenticated users to overwrite, create, or delete arbitrary files, or determine the existence of arbitrary directories, via a .. (dot dot) in a list name in a (1) edit or (2) save action.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://mlmmj.org/node/84 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100626 Re: CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259968 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100625 Re: CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 40658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100623 CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607256 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100706 Re: CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100623 Re: CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100704 Re: CVE Request -- mlmmj -- Directory traversal flaw by editing and saving list entries via php-admin web interface (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-2073 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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-2009-4859 (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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