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CVE-2006-2941

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2941 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU Mailman versions prior to 2.1.9rc1. Attackers can trigger this by sending "standards-breaking RFC 2231 formatted headers." The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

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
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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.rhel3.7
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-2006-2941Moderate

security flaw

Sep 4, 2006

References

mail.python.org / pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0600.html
secunia.com / advisories/21732
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21792
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21837
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21879
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22011
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22020
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22639
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200609-12.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28732
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9912
svn.sourceforge.net / viewvc/mailman/trunk/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html
securityfocus.com / bid/19831
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-345-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3446