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CVE-2003-0038

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0038 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mailman 2.1, specifically within the options.py script. Attackers can inject malicious script or HTML into web pages by manipulating the 'email' or 'language' parameters. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium severity with low impact on integrity, and can be exploited remotely without authentication. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22198 · Jan 24, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0472 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: mailmanFixed in: 2.1.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-82rm-28q9-435pmedium

Mailman Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Apr 29, 2022

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/11152
telia.dl.sourceforge.net / sourceforge/mailman/xss-2.1.0-patch.txt
Patch
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-436
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 9205
securityfocus.com / bid/6677
securitytracker.com / id