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CVE-2006-3636

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3636 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in GNU Mailman versions prior to 2.1.9rc1, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts. With a CVSS score of 6.8 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 95/100, this vulnerability is considered moderately severe, requiring medium attack complexity but potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or KEV listing, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-28570) exists, indicating public knowledge of input validation vulnerabilities in Mailman 2.1.x, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.1:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-28570 · Sep 14, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0643 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-3636Moderate

security flaw

Sep 4, 2006

References

mail.python.org / pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
moritz-naumann.com / adv/0013/mailmanmulti/0013.txt
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0600.html
secunia.com / advisories/21732
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21792
secunia.com / advisories/21879
secunia.com / advisories/22011
secunia.com / advisories/22020
secunia.com / advisories/22227
secunia.com / advisories/22639
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200609-12.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28731
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10553
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1188
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/445992/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/19831
securityfocus.com / bid/20021
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-345-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3446