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CVE-2018-13796
An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be displayed on a web page from a trusted…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be displayed on a web page from a trusted site.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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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
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImailmanGHSA-xqvg-xm9m-p2c4 (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1780874 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180724 [SECURITY] [DLA 1442-1] mailman security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [mailman-users] 20180710 Re: correction: Mailman 2.1.28 Security fix release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201904-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-4348-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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-2018-0472 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xqvg-xm9m-p2c4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-13796)Record last updated .