CVE-2003-0038

Mailman vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

4.7%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via the (1) email or (2) language parameters.

Affected vendor

Gnu

Affected product

Mailman

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published

2003-02-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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