mailman logfile CRLF injection
Published Sep 7, 2006
2.6
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.93%
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in Utils.py in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to spoof messages in the error log and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via CRLF sequences in the URI.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
The Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact and expects to release a future update to address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode. This bug will be addressed in a future update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (17 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.93% (0.02926) | 86.60th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.75% (0.02754) | 84.26th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.55% (0.02552) | 84.14th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 4.68% (0.04683) | 81.85th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.62% (0.01616) | 80.53th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.17% (0.01168) | 85.62th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 13, 2024 | 1.17% (0.01168) | 84.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 1.65% (0.01649) | 86.30th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 3, 2023 | 1.17% (0.01168) | 83.44th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 19, 2023 | 1.02% (0.01021) | 81.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 12, 2023 | 1.15% (0.01145) | 82.85th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 4, 2023 | 1.05% (0.01048) | 81.86th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 27, 2023 | 1.06% (0.01058) | 81.91th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.00% (0.01005) | 81.34th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 85.88th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 84.43th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.93% (0.03932) | 67.70th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (25)
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://moritz-naumann.com/adv/0013/mailmanmulti/0013.txt x_refsource_MISC
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21732 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22011 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22020 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22227 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22639 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27669 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-12.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=444295 x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
- http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mailman/trunk/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py?r1=7859&r2=7923 x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1188 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:165 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0779.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445992/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19831 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20021 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3446 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-4624 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=205651 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28734 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4624
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9756 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4624
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