High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in management/commands/hyperkitty_import.py in HyperKitty through 1.3.4. When importing a private mailing list's archives, these archives are publicly visible for the duration of the import. For example, sensitive information might be available on the web for an hour during a large migration from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33038
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in management/commands/hyperkitty_import.py in HyperKitty through 1.3.4. When importing a private mailing list's archives, these archives are publicly visible for the duration of the import. For example, sensitive information might be available on the web for an hour during a large migration from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3.
osv:CVE-2021-33038
Complete source record
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"id": "7131384a40949119bae024b46899b50fd6a6c6305974ea563811ab206d4656a9",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-33038",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2021-33038",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in management/commands/hyperkitty_import.py in HyperKitty through 1.3.4. When importing a private mailing list's archives, these archives are publicly visible for the duration of the import. For example, sensitive information might be available on the web for an hour during a large migration from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-33038",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-33038",
"GHSA-h39g-q63v-4h9p",
"PYSEC-2021-77"
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}
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],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:48.715255051Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4922",
"https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/commit/9025324597d60b2dff740e49b70b15589d6804fa",
"https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/issues/380",
"https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/11/discovering-and-fixing-cve-2021-33038-in-mailman3/"
],
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],
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{
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384658,
"published_at": "2021-05-26T14:15:08.913+00:00"
}