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CVE-2004-0412

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0412 describes a vulnerability in GNU Mailman versions prior to 2.1.5, where a remote attacker could obtain user passwords by sending a specially crafted email request to the Mailman server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential compromise of confidentiality. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0298 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: mailmanFixed in: 2.1.5
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-hj4h-vqpq-95wgmedium

Mailman Sensitive Information Disclosure

Apr 29, 2022
redhatCVE-2004-0412Moderate

mailman: password stealing via a crafted email request

Oct 2, 2021

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
Vendor Advisory
mail.python.org / pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-May/000072.html
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/11701
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200406-04.xml
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16256
mandrakesecure.net / en/advisories/advisory.php
securityfocus.com / bid/10412
PatchVendor Advisory