CVE-2006-1712

LOW 2.6CVE-2006-1712 · Published 11/04/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-1712 is a LOW (CVSS 2.6) vulnerability affecting mailman (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 73.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mailman gnu	`= 2.1.7`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the private archive script (private.py) in GNU Mailman 2.1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the action argument.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-April/000084.html
secunia.com/advisories/19558 · Patch
securitytracker.com/id · Patch
mail-archive.com/mailman-checkins%40python.org/msg06273.html
osvdb.org/24442
securityfocus.com/bid/17403 · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1269

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

mailman

gnu

= 2.1.7

No fix yet

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