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A vulnerability was found in GNU Mailman (Mail Client Software) (version now known) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Pipermail. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was presented 06/18/2002 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-0389. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 74637 (openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-SU-2012:0660-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 350120 (Amazon Linux Security Advisory for mailman: ALAS-2015-582).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8874) and Tenable (74637). See 18247 for similar entry.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Information disclosureCWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 74637
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-SU-2012:0660-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 14611
OpenVAS Name: Amazon Linux Local Check: ALAS-2015-582
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Timeline
04/16/2002 🔍04/16/2002 🔍
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07/11/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: gnu.orgAdvisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2002-0389 (🔍)
X-Force: 8874
Vulnerability Center: 41773 - Gnu Mailman Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability Due to a Flaw In Private Mailing Access Restriction, Low
SecurityFocus: 4538
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Entry
Created: 07/11/2014 14:08Updated: 06/27/2021 10:53
Changes: 07/11/2014 14:08 (63), 05/12/2017 15:02 (6), 06/27/2021 10:53 (3)
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