PYSEC-2026-659

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    PYSEC-2026-659

    Published: 2 Jul 2026Last Modified: 6 Jul 2026

    Summary: mailman Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1177, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18854, https://github.com/terencehonles/mailman, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11113, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287555, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110549296126351&w=2, http://secunia.com/advisories/13603, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:015, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-235.html, https://pypi.org/project/mailman, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rh6c-jh4c-9fg3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mailman

    Purl: pkg:pypi/mailman

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1.5

    Affected versions

    3.0.0b3-

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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