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CVE-2005-3573

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3573 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU Mailman versions 2.1.5-8, specifically within the Scrubber.py component. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending email attachments with malformed UTF-8 encoded filenames. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a low-complexity attack that can be executed remotely without authentication, leading to application unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0271 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3573Moderate

security flaw

Sep 12, 2005

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0003.html
mail.python.org / pipermail/mailman-users/2005-September/046523.html
secunia.com / advisories/17511
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17874
secunia.com / advisories/18456
secunia.com / advisories/18503
secunia.com / advisories/18612
secunia.com / advisories/19167
secunia.com / advisories/19196
secunia.com / advisories/19532
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23139
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10038
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-955
wwwnew.mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 20819
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html
securityfocus.com / bid/15408
trustix.org / errata/2006/0012
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-242-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2404