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CVE-2025-43919 (GCVE-0-2025-43919)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-28 13:43 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via ../ directory traversal at /mailman/private/mailman (aka the private archive authentication endpoint) via the username parameter. NOTE: multiple third parties report that they are unable to reproduce this, regardless of whether cPanel or WHM is used.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-21 14:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-24 - Path Traversal: '../filedir'
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GNU Mailman Affected: 2.1.39 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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