National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0389
Original release date:06/18/2002
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Pipermail in Mailman stores private mail messages with predictable filenames in a world-executable directory, which allows local users to read private mailing list archives.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/01/1900)
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Red Hat does not intend to take any action on this issue. This is the expected behavior of Mailman and is not considered to be a security flaw by upstream. If Mailman upstream addresses this issue in a future update, we may revisit our decision.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20020417 Mailman/Pipermail private mailing list/local user vulnerability
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 4538
External Source: XF
Name: pipermail-view-archives(8874)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=474616&group_id=103