mlmmj — security advisory
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mlmmj-php-admin web interface for Mailing List Managing Made Joyful (mlmmj) 1.2.15 through 1.2.17 allow remote authenticated users to overwrite, create, or delete arbitrary files, or determine the existence of arbitrary directories, via a .. (dot dot) in a list name in a (1) edit or (2) save action.
- Products
- mlmmj
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.2.17-1.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-4896
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mlmmj-php-admin web interface for Mailing List Managing Made Joyful (mlmmj) 1.2.15 through 1.2.17 allow remote authenticated users to overwrite, create, or delete arbitrary files, or determine the existence of arbitrary directories, via a .. (dot dot) in a list name in a (1) edit or (2) save action.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4896
mlmmj
Fixed versions: 1.2.17-1.1
mlmmj
Fixed versions: 1.2.17-1.1
mlmmj
Fixed versions: 1.2.17-1.1
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2010-08-02T20:40:00.217+00:00"
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