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CVE-2006-4624

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4624 describes a CRLF injection vulnerability in the Utils.py component of GNU Mailman versions prior to 2.1.9rc1. This flaw allows remote attackers to spoof messages in the error log and potentially trick administrators into visiting malicious URLs by injecting CRLF sequences into the URI. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and only partial impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0275 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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 0.3 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-4624Low

mailman logfile CRLF injection

Jun 23, 2006

References

mail.python.org / pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
moritz-naumann.com / adv/0013/mailmanmulti/0013.txt
secunia.com / advisories/21732
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22011
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22020
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22227
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22639
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27669
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200609-12.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28734
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9756
svn.sourceforge.net / viewvc/mailman/trunk/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1188
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0779.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/445992/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/19831
securityfocus.com / bid/20021
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3446